OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 10.40 A.M. She found that the Aquilla’s engine had broken down, that she had lost her anchors and that she was drifting on to the Askew Spit. A tug was helping her, and the life-boat escorted them until the steamer was safe in the Gladstone Dock.

She returned to her station at 2.30 P.M.- Rewards, £6 9s..