New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary Robinson, on tem- porary duty at the station, put out with the bowman in command. There was a rough sea, with a strong south-westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The boarding boat also put out ahead of the life-boat through the shallow water of the Rock Channel. The boarding boat approached the rubber dinghy first and towed it out over the North Bank to deeper water. The man was put aboard the life-boat, and the dinghy was then deflated and taken by the boarding boat to New Brighton. Because of the state of the tide the life-boat made a longer passage back to her station through the Queen's Channel, arriving at 10.15.

Rewards to the crew, £9. 12s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1. 12s..