New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.32 on the evening of the 30th of March, 1958, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed in the River Mersey, off Speke airfield, five hundred yards off shore. The life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 5.45 in a calm sea. There was a light north-westerly wind and the tide was flooding. The life-boat reached the position and found several other vessels near the aircraft, which was lying upside down with only part of her wings, tail and landing wheels showing above the water. One of her crew had been rescued by a dinghy, but attempts to reach a second man, who was still strapped to his seat, had been unsuc- cessful. The life-boat helped to tow the aircraft ashore, where the body of the second man was recovered. She then returned to her station, arriving at 8.30. Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 8s..