New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1957, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned to say that a member of the crew of the Bar lightvessel had been suddenly taken ill. As the Harbour Board's motor vessel Salvor would be unable to come close to the lightvessel because of the rough sea the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out at 10.7 to fetch the sick man ashore. There was a strong westerly breeze, and the tide was flooding.

The sick man was taken on board the life-boat. The life-boat then met the Salvor, which had a doctor on board, near the Qll buoy, transferred him to her and arrived back at her moorings at 2.15.—Rewards to the crew. £10 lOs.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 12s..