Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.43 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957,/the Walney coastguard telephoned that the trawler Dean Swift had wirelessed that the steam trawler Alcmaria, of Lowestoft, with a crew of ten, needed help seven miles north-north-west of Morecambe Bay lightvessel. At 10.15 the life-boat Civil Service No. 5, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a very rough sea, a whole gale was blowing from south-west-by-west, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the Alcmaria at 1.15 in the morning, and another trawler Red Sabre also came to help. For several hours efforts were made to secure a line, but in the conditions prevailing this was impossible. By nine o'clock in the morning the wind had moderated, and the trawler Dean Swift picked up a line floated from the Alcmaria and took her in tow to Fleetwood. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 12.15.—Rewards to the crew, £25 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 11s..