A Ship’s Boat marked D.383 V.H.JB.
FEBRUARY 3RD. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 5.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a ship’s boat could be seen in the river by the Twelfth Mile Light. A strong south-east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was raining heavily. The motor life-boat Dunleary left her moorings at 6.15 and found a ship’s boat, marked D.383 V.H.JB., aground on a bank on the south side of the river. Some of the lifeboat crew went ashore and found the boat damaged and full of water. They moored her with a grapnel and put her gear and stores on board the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at ten o’clock that night. On the following day life-boatmen, using a fishing boat, salved the boat. - Rewards, £12 9s..