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A Sailing Craft

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1957, the coxswain was told that a fishing- vessel had wirelessed that a small sailing craft was ashore near the King's Scar buoy and that her crew were waving for help. The life-boat Anne Letitia Russell was launched at 3.10 in a choppy sea. A gentle north- north-westerly breeze was blowing, with thundery rain squalls, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat reach- ed the position and found a small sailing boat with a man and a small boy 011 board. They were taken on board the life-boat, and the sailing boat was towed to Fleetwood, arriving at 4.30.—Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 16*..