Nov. 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the New Brighton Stage that a fishing boat appeared to be out of control and drifting. Later flares were seen off the Rip Rap Buoy. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 7.5 P.M.

the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched. She found the fishing boat Queen, of Liverpool, anchored off the Rip Rap Buoy, with six men on board.

Three were taken off, one of them injured, and landed at the stage. The life-boat then returned, and towed in the fishing boat, with the remaining three men on board. Thelife-boat returned to her station at 8.40 P.M.- Rewards, £13 12s. 6d.