New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1956, a beach patrolman at Egremont ferry rang up to say that a cabin cruiser was in distress and drifting off Egremont ferry. The life-boat Norman R. Cor- lett put out at seven o'clock. The sea was rough, there was a strong westerly breeze, and it was high water. The life-boat came up with the cabin cruiser Merry Widow, which had a crew of four, and found she was drag- ging her anchor and rolling heavily.

Two members of the life-boat crew were put aboard the vessel, and the life-boat then towed her to a safe anchorage, arriving back at her station at ten o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 8s..