AUG. 20TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 7.30P.M. a message was received from the police stating that some boys in an open boat were missing and had been last seen drifting to sea. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Sarah Ann Austin was launched at 7.45 P.M. and found the boat with four boys on board. She took off the boys and towed in the boat, arriving at Blackpool at 9.50 P.M. Learning that a pleasure boat, which had also put out to help the boys, had not returned the life-boat set out again, and found the boat returning. They got back at 10.30 P.M. - Rewards, £11 13s.