New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1957, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the New Brighton stage- man saying that the hopper Gamma had reported that she had seen two bovs drifting in a small canvas canoe near the 11. 6 buoy in the Rock Channel. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat, Cii'il Service No. 5, on tem- porary duty at the station,, put out.

There was a choppy sea and a moderate south-westerly breeze. The tide was ebbino1. The life-boat found the canoe near the 11. 7 buoy and took the two boys and their canoe on board. She then returned to her station, arriving at 2.15.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 -is..