New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1957, the Wallasey police reported that a rubber dinghy was being swept out to sea one mile off Harrison Drive. The life-boat coxswain and motor mechanic went to the drive by car and saw that the craft sighted was in a dangerous position because of the south-westerly wind. The life-boat Norman B. Cor- lett left her moorings at 11.30 in a moderate sea. It was then low water.

She proceeded down Rock Channel with her boarding boat in tow and came up with a yacht. It was this yacht which, when sighted from the shore, had been reported to be a rubber dinghy. The life-boat escorted the yacht to New Brighton and then returned to her moorings, arriving at 12.30.—Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4*..