LIFE-BOATMAN CARRIES TWO BOYS ASHORE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.25 on the night of the 4th June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were marooned on a marker buoy off Hall Road, Crosby. At 10.40 the reserve life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. There was a light easterly wind and a calm sea, and it was high water. The life-boat found the boys clinging to a beach mark, but she could not come nearer than ten yards away from them because of the shallow water. The lights of a police car were illuminating the scene, and a member of the life-boat crew jumped into the sea with a breeches buoy. When he reached the boys he decided that it would be easier to carry them ashore than to the life-boat. This he did, one by one, landing them on the beach. The life-boat stood by during the operation, and when the crew member had been re-embarked she returned to her station, where she arrived at 12.25..