APRIL 1ST. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.

At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a ship’s lifeboat needed help. A moderate W.S.W. wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 1.40 P.M.

the motor life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched and found the boat, which belonged to Blackpool, with two men on board, one and three-quarter miles E.N.E. of the lighthouse.

In the shallow water the life-boat could not go alongside. She anchored and veered down as near as possible and then fired a line, but it fell short of the boat. The tide however, was rising, and later the lifeboat was able to go alongside the boat, which was half full of water, and rescued the two men who were exhausted. She returned to her station at 5.30 P.M. - Rewards, £5 12s. 6d..