Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1958, the police informed the coxswain that a man was clinging to an upturned dinghy five hundred yards from the shore and two miles north of Skegness pier. The life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 2.50 in a heavy ground swell. There was a light south-easterly wind and a flood tide. The life-boat rescued the man and saved his dinghy and returned to her station at 3.25.

Rewards to the crew, £9 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 16s..