DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.

gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Dunleary was launched at 10 A.M., and at the request of the pilot boat, took aboard a pilot and brought him to the vessel.

She was the tanker Pass-o-Leny, laden with petrol. After the captain and pilot had consulted, the life-boat was told that her services would not be needed further. On her way back she was signalled by the Preston corporation’s house barge and told that red flares had been seen about three miles south of Southport Pier. The life-boat was put about at 11.7 A.M. and searched as far as Ainsdale Beach, but she found nothing. She returned to her station at about 2.30 P.M.

At New Brighton news was received from the Southport police of flares, detonations and firing shortly before 11 A.M., and the No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out. She made a long, but fruitless, search over a wide area outside the bar, and returned at 5.55 P.M.. - Rewards: Lytham-St. Anne’s, £7 5s. ; New Brighton, £10 4s. 6d..