New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a man had fallen over- board from the tanker Rinda, of Oslo, off Rock Ferry, and at 9.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings.

She searched widely in a rough sea, with a strong north-westerly gale, but found nothing. The tanker had lowered a pulling-boat to search for the man, and a sand barge towed this back to Bromborough dock. At the request of the tanker's master the life-boat towed the ship's boat back to the Rinda and then resumed the search, without success, arriving back at her station at two o'clock.—Rewards, £12 8s..