New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boat was in difficulties near the Q16 buoy in the Queen's Channel. A strong westerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. The weather was squally. At 7.45 the life- boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea around low water. On reaching the position the life-boat found the con- verted ship's boat Shandra on the land side of the revetment. Because of the shallowness of the water the life-boat was unable to cross to her and had to make a long detour via Q6 buoy. When the life-boat reached the original position again it was found that the Shandra, with the turn of the tide, had managed to cross the revetment. The life-boat then regained the main channel and eventually reached the Shandra and escorted her to the entrance of Wallasey outer dock. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.20 early the next morning..