Workington, Cumberland.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1957, it was learnt that the fishing boat Ruby, which had taken two Trinity House engineers out to the South Workington buoy, was adrift near the entrance to Workington harbour. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 1.10 in a very rough sea. There was a moderate south-south-westerly gale and the tide was ebbing. It was reported by radio-telephone that the coaster Ben Veen had taken the owner of the Ruby off his boat, that there was nobody else aboard her, and that the two engineers were stranded on the buoy. With considerable diffi- culty the life-boat rescued the two men from the lattice cage of the buoy.

She then took the owner of the Ruby off the Ben Veen and returned to her station, arriving at four o'clock.— Rewards to the crew, £7 4s..