New Brighton, Cheshire.—About 7.45 on the morning of the 26th of Novem- ber, 1955, the port radar station reported that a message had been received from a steamer that a fishing boat was in distress and asking for help between C.19 and C.21 buoys in the Crosby Channel. At 8.5 the life- boat Norman B. Corlett put out in a moderate sea. There was a fresh westerly wind, and it was high water.

The life-boat began to search, but meanwhile a dredger, which had also received the message, had found the fishing boat. She was the Cresswell, of Liverpool, with a crew of two, and she had broken down. The dredger took the men on board just as the life-boat arrived and then transferred them to the life-boat. The life-boat took the fishing boat in tow and returned to her station, arriving at 9.10.—Rewards to the crew, £6 5s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 6*..