At 7.50 P.M. on the 9th July a telephone mes- sage was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Office that the Crosby lightship had reported a fishing boat ashore in a dangerous position near C.2 Black Buoy in the Crosby Channel. A strong S.S.W.

breeze was blowing, the sea was rough, and it was raining heavily. The motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out and learned from the Crosby lightship that the boat had been washed over the revetment. The life-boat went round the revetment, but could not go alongside the fishing boat, the Mona, of Liverpool, as the water was too shallow. She returned to the Channel and borrowed a small motor boat belonging to the Mersey Docks steamer Salvor. With the aid of this two men were taken off the Mona, which was then towed clear. The life- boat took the remaining four men off the Mona, and towed the fishing boat back to New Brighton, arriving at 12.15 A.M.—Rewards, £9..