New Brighton, Cheshire. — At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1951, the son of an oldfisherman, formerly a life-boat second coxswain, reported that his father had left New Brighton stage in a small boat at seven that morning to gather coal off the Burbo Bank. He had not returned. At 10.14 the life-boat Nor- man B. Corlett left her moorings in a moderate southerly breeze with a slight sea and thick fog. She searched and found the old man in the Rock Channel, and with his boat in tow, returned to her station, arriving at eleven o'clock.

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