New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.53 in the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1948, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that a fishing boat had capsized and the crew were clinging to C.ll Black Buoy. A moderate north- westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The No. 2 Motor life- boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 1.10, and found four men on the buoy with their fishing boat, the Ranger, of Liverpool, awash alongside.

She had struck the buoy and had stove in three planks. The life-boat rescued the men, landed them at the stage and arrived back at her station at 1.55.

The Ranger sank later.—Rewards, £5 15s..