New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 early on the 15th of August, 1953, the stageman told the coxswain that a yachtsman had reported that he had seen another yacht in distress off R.7 Buoy in the Rock Channel. At 12.45 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out in a choppy sea, with a fresh south- south-west breeze blowing. She found the yacht Lesley, with a crew of four, a hundred yards north-west of R.8 Buoy.

Her engine had broken down, and she was drifting over the Burbo Bank.

The life-boat rescued her crew and towed the yacht to New Brighton, reaching her station at 2.10.—Re- wards, £6 2s..