New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Rock Channel and drifting out to sea.

At 3.25 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a rough sea. There was a strong south-south-westerly wind and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the vessel half a mile east of the R.4 buoy with her engine broken down.

A tow rope was connected, and after the coxswain had put a member of the life-boat's crew aboard the vessel to act as pilot, the life-boat towed her to the New Brighton stage. The life-boat reached her moorings at 5.10. Re- wards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1. 6s..