FISHING VESSEL'S ENGINE BREAKS DOWN New Brighton, Cheshire. At half past twelve on the morning of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain repor- ted that the fishing vessel Phoenician had broken down with engine trouble and had anchored in Rock Channel off Harrison Drive. At 12.50 the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a moderate westnorth- westerly wind and rough sea. It was an hour after high water. The lifeboat found the fishing vessel with four people on board - two of the crew had already left the fishing vessel by dinghy to get help. The life-boat took three of the four crew on board the life-boat and then towed the fishing vessel to Alfred Dock. The life-boat returned to her station at half past three..