New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Toni had reported seeing a distress signal made by the crew of a boat near the wreck of the Ousel off Rock Ferry. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett was launched at eleven o'clock after this report had been confirmed. There was a fresh south- south-easterly wind with a choppy sea and a flood tide. The life-boat reached the position and found a launch towing an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, which was being used as a tender by a contractor working in the river at the new oil jetty. The crew of the ex-life-boat had run short of fuel. The life-boat es- corted the boats back to the contractor's ship and then returned to her moorings, arriving at 12.45. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 6s..