Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1957, the police reported that the yacht Tumbler, of Lytham, had been wrecked near the 14|-mile buoy in the Ribble Channel. The buoy had dragged several hundred feet south- wards of her proper position, and the yacht, which had been navigating by it, had struck the south training wall.

Her crew of two had fired Very lights and other yachts had tried to help her.

At 12.45 "the life-boat Civil Service No. 5, on temporary duty at the station, put off in a rough sea. A moderate west-north-westerly breeze was blowing and the tide was flooding.

A man who was returning from fishing in his 23-feet fishing boat had also seen the Very lights, and at some risk went alongside the Tumbler and took off her crew of two. The services of the life-boat were not needed, and she returned to her station, arriving at 2.30.—Rewards to the crew, £7; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s.