Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Black- pool life-boat was searching for three youths who had drifted out to sea in an inflatable dinghy. At 8.10 the coast- guard asked for the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat to be launched too to help in the search, as the Blackpool life-boat had not found the dinghy. The Lytham- St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt put out in a calm sea.

There was a light north-easterly wind and it was high water. It was overcast and snowing. A Royal Air Force aircraft guided the life-boat to the dinghy, which was found one mile north of Nelson Buoy at the entrance to the Ribble estuary. The three youths were suffering from exposure, and as the dinghy was leaking they had been baling out with their hands and shoes. They were taken aboard the life-boat, given clothing and refresh- ments, and landed at Lytham, where they were taken to hospital. The life- boat reached her station at 11.50.

Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 2s..