New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.15 on the morning of the 8th of January, 1957, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Ousel, of Liverpool, when at anchor, had been struck by another vessel off Rock Ferry. At 2.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out.

There was a slight sea, a gentle south- westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was flooding. When the life-boat reached the Ousel she found that several tugs were attempting to tow her into shallow water. The Ousel had a list of five degrees to starboard and had been holed on her port side.

As the tide ebbed she could no longer be held in shallow water, and it was decided that the six men aboard her should be taken off. The life-boat rescued the six men and transferred them to the motor vessel Salvor. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving back at her moorings at 7.30.

—Rewards to the crew, £12 10.?.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 12,s..