Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report received from the police that a small boy was in the sea off Rossall Point. At 11.5 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a smooth sea, with a light north-westerly breeze blowing and a flood tide. She reached the boy, who was taken on board. He was given artificial respira- tion by the bowman and motor mechanic until he was landed. An ambulance was waiting at the pierhead to take him to hospital, and efforts to resuscitate the boy were continued in the ambulance, but they were unsuccessful.

The life-boat finally reached her station at 11.50. Rewards to the crew, £5 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..