New B ight n, Cheshire.—At 8.40 in the evening of the 5th of September, 1949, the c xswain of the Hoylake life- boat telephoned that a fishing boat was sending up flares in Hilbre Swash.

Accordingly at 9.5 the No. 1 life-boat William and Kate Johnston left her moorings. There was a strong south- south-east breeze and a moderate sea.

She found the fishing boat Greyhound with three men and a boy on board.

The boy had fallen on the engine, put- ting it out of action and badly injuring himself. The life-boat wirelessed for an ambulance to be ready and towed the boat to New Brighton, where she landed the boy and took the Greyhound to an anchorage. She reached her station again at 12.45 the next morning.

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