New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at 5.42.

A east-south-east breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat went to the Burbo Buoy, in the Crosby Channel and there found the R.A.S.C.

tender Sir Herbert Miles. The tender was bringing workmen from Queen's Torts, anti-aircraft fortifications erected during the war, which they were demolishing. She had run on the revetment in a fog, and had a very dangerous list. The life-boat went .alongside and took off twenty-five men, but the captain said that there were nine men in a small boat on the other side •of the revetment. They could not be seen in the darkness. ' The life-boat turned on her searchlight, picked up the boat, and called to the men to row up to their side of the revetment. The life-boat went along the revetment on the other side and hauled the men .across it from the boat with ropes.

Two of them had their legs injured.

The life-boat then put the captain and the crew of nine on board the Mersey Harbour Dock Board vessel Vigilent .and landed the other twenty-four men .at New Brighton at half past seven.— Rewards, £ll. 55..