New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo Buoy, and at four o'clock the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on tem- porary duty at the station, left her moorings with the second coxswain in charge. A moderate sea was running, with a moderate westerly breeze.

The life-boat found a motor boat with two men and four cadets on board from H.M.S. Conway. Her engine had broken down. She was in heavy breaking seas and had been drifting for eight hours. The life-boat towed her to Wallasey and reached her station again at 6.0 in the evening.

The Commanding Officer of H.M.S.

Conway expressed his thanks.—Re- wards, £6 17s..