New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the dredger Delta had engine trouble and was in danger of drifting on to the revetment wall a mile and a half north of Q.6 buoy in the Mersey Channel. At 1.35 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out. There was a moderate sea, a strong west-south-westerly breeze was blow- ing-, and the tide was flooding1. The Delta had in the meantime restarted her engines, and when the life-boat met her near C.6 buoy she was pro- ceeding up the channel. The life-boat escorted her to New Brighton and returned to her moorings at 3.10.— Rewards to the crew, £7 10,?.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 6s..