DEAD MAN REMOVED FROM LIGHTVESSEL New Brighton, Cheshire. At approximately 9.35 on the morning of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Marine Department of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Bar lightvessel had collapsed and died. They asked if the life-boat would take off the body as their service boat was not suitable in the bad weather conditions. At 9.55 the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a gale force wind and very rough sea. It was three hours before high water. The life-boat took the body on board and returned to her station at 3.45..