New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea off the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The message was passed to the motor mechanic, who went to Harrison Drive to investigate. He saw a sea cadet naval whaler a mile and a half out to sea, and it appeared that her crew of nine sea cadets and an officer were trying to pull against the strong ebb tide and a fresh easterly breeze. The sea was choppy. As they were making little headway, the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out at 1.30. The life- boat proceeded in shallow water down the Rock channel and came up with the whaler, which was moored to one of the marker buoys in the fairway.

Her crew were exhausted. The life- boat took the whaler in tow to the New Brighton stage, and the life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 3.45.—Rewards to the crew, £7 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 8*..