New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of April, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from a New Brighton stage- man that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties near the port radar station at the entrance to the River Mersey.

The life-boat Edmund and Mary Robin- son, on temporary duty at the station, put out at five o'clock in a choppy sea.

There was a fresh west-south-westerly wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat, which had taken a boarding boat with her, found the yacht Thebe, of New Brighton, aground and listing to port. Four members of the life-boat crew made for the yacht in the boarding boat. They stood by until the yacht refloated on the flooding tide and then towed the yacht to the life-boat, which was standing by in midstream. The life-boat took the Thebe in tow to New Brighton, arriving at 7.30. The three men on board the yacht expressed their thanks. Rewards to the crew, £8. 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1. 8s..