New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.30 on the night of the 25th of January, 1948, the Hoylake coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing vessel was in distress near C.2 A Buoy, half a mile off the Crosby Lightvessel and at 12.15 the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson put out. She searched in a strong south-easterly breeze and a choppy sea, and found the fishing vessel Moa at anchor, leaking, with her engine broken down and her main boom carried away. A pilot boat was standing by.

The life-boat rescued the Moo's crew of three, and arrived back at her station at 3 o'clock. The Moa was later towed in by a Mersey Docks and Harbour Board boat. — Rewards, £12 2s. 6d..