New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 29th of November, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned to say the tanker Burma Emerald, of London, was aground on the revetment wall near the Formby buoy. At 5.20 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out. There was a rough sea, a fresh north-north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat reached the position at 7.5, and the master of the Bu?ma Emerald, which had fifty people on board, asked the coxswain to stand by. The tanker refloated on the rising tide, and the life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 9.15.—Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 10s..