New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.10 P.M.

on the llth June, 1939, a message was received from the police that a motor boat was in difficulties off Seacombe Stage and needed immediate help. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing with a choppy sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 9.26 P.M. and found the motor boat Sally, of Birkenhead, out fishing, with three men on board.

Her rudder and stern post had been broken; she was leaking badly; her crew were unable to cope with theflow of water. The life-boat took the men on board and towed the Sally to New Brighton, returning to her station at 10.30 P.M.—Rewards, £10 5*..