Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.

At 4.20 in the afternoon the vessel refloated and went up river towards Caldy, but later returned to her former position. The Formby coast- guard reported at 7.40 that the vessel was making signals, and the life-boat Oldham IV was taken from her boat- house by tractor twenty minutes later and launched near Hilbre Island at 8.30. She came up with the motor vessel Marie Louise, of Rotterdam, whose master asked for a pilot. The coxswain reported this by radio tele- phone and a member of the life-boat crew then went on board the Marie Louise. Escorted by the life-boat, the vessel proceeded to a safe anchorage off Salisbury Swatch buoy, where a pilot was due to board her at four o'clock the next morning. The life- boat returned to her station, arriving at 1.30 early on the 6th of June.— Rewards to the crew, £9 12s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 12s..