LIFE-BOATMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.35 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1948, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that white flares had been seen off C.2 Red Buoy. The life-boat's crew went out in the boarding boat, but as she came alongside the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson at her moorings, one of the men was washed out of her and fell between the two boats. He was hauled in unconscious, but quickly recovered and carried on. The life- boat left her moorings at 2.45. A moderate west-north-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough.

The life-boat found the motor vessel Guloy, of Bergen, anchored off C.I Red Buoy. She wanted a pilot, but it was too rough to put anyone on board her, so the life-boat guided her up the river to the Sloyne, where she anchored. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 8.15 that evening.— Rewards, £17 5s..