JULY 9TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

At 1.55 in the afternoon the Preston Corporation house barge telephoned that a vessel had signalled to them that a boat was in distress on the north side of the river, near Wall End Buoy. A moderate southsouth- east gale was blowing, with a rough sea.

The motor life-boat Dunleary was launched at 2.20, with her boarding boat in tow, and found the boat in distress to be the motor fishing vessel Gipsy, with a crew of five. Her anchor had dragged and she had been driven on to Salters Bank on the north side of the river and been severely battered. After putting two life-boatmen aboard the life-boat towed the Gipsy into Lytham, arriving at four o’clock. The Gipsy was a converted life-boat of the Institution and it was thought that had she been an ordinary fishing boat she would have broken up in a short time. Two of the rescued men sent a letter of thanks and a donation. - Rewards, £5 16s. 6d..