FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The life-boat was unable to launch owing to gravel piled by the seas on the slipway. The message was passed on to Barrow, and the Barrow motor life-boat N.T. was launched at 1.15. She found the trawler Kunishi aground on the Pilling Sands, east of the Wyre Lighthouse. She had a crew of ten on board and was returning from service with the Navy, to be converted into a trawler again. The water was so shallow that the life-boat could not get within a mile of the trawler, so she went to Fleetwood to report and returned to her station, arriving at 9.30 that morning. At Fleetwood five men of the National Fire Service and of the London Midland and Scottish Railway were called out. They succeeded in clearing the slipway with hoses and the Fleetwood motor life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 11.20. She was able to reach the Kunishi and rescued the crew, returning to her station at 12.50 in the afternoon. - Rewards : Fleetwood, £20 0s. 8d. ; Barrow, £14..