MAY 30TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Shortly after 1 P.M. the local fishing smack Two Brothers, with a crew of two, went to sea. As a moderate westerly wind was blowing with a moderatesea the smack was watched, and at about 4 P.M. she was seen to be on Salters Bank, north of the fourteenth mile light, at the entrance to the River Ribble. She was lying in a dangerous position on a lee shore and at 6.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Dunleary put out. At 7 P.M. she found the smack pounding violently on the banks. The lifeboat went alongside her and put two men on board; she herself touched bottom while she was doing it. She then took the smack in tow and, with the smack’s crew baling, brought her to Lytham and beached her.

She returned to her station at 7.55 P.M.- Rewards, £8 5s. 6d..