JANUARY 4TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 11.2 P.M. a confidential message was received from the Mersey Dock Board that H.M. Destroyer Whirlwind was ashore on the West Training Wall off C.14 Red Buoy. A S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, with an ebbing tide.

The No. 1 motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston was launched. After she had set out a message was received from the senior naval officer that she was not to go. The Whirlwind had a crew of one hundred and twenty-four, and over one hundred were taken aboard the life-boat. The remainder left the destroyer in a motor boat of the steamer Salvor, and the life-boat then put the men she had rescued on the Salvor.

She then stood by until flood tide, when the destroyer refloated. It was then 4.45 A.M.

on the morning of the 5th. The life-boat put back on the destroyer 24 men from the Salvor and returned to her station at 8.45 A.M.

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