New Brighton, Cheshire. — During the early afternoon of the 15th of September, 1948, the Hoy lake coastguard reported that a barge had broken away from her tug in Liverpool Bay and had anchored, but was dragging towards the Burbo Bank, and at 1.45 the barge was reported to have made distress signals. The No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston left her moorings at a quarter past two, in a squally northerly gale with very rough seas, and found the barge Tatam II, with a crew of eight, half a miie north- west of the No. 1 R. Black Buoy. The life-boat took off the eight men and returned to her station, arriving at 4 o'clock. The barge was eventually towed to Brunswick Dock. The owners made a donation to the Institution.— Rewards, £5 15*..