New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of May, 1955, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a boat had been reported in dis- tress and making heavy weather in the Rock Channel. At 12^.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on tem- porary duty at the station, put out.

The sea was moderate, a fresh south- easterly breeze was blowing, and it was one hour and a half before low water.

The life-boat saw two boats off Harrison Drive, both flying distress signals, but by the time she reached them one had gone aground and the other, the fishing boat Kitty, with a crew of four, had anchored. Neither boat was in any immediate danger, but the life-boat remained with the Kitty until the tide began to flood and then escorted her to New Brighton, reaching her station again at 4.45.—Rewards to the crew, £9 9s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 8s..