JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was kept under observation. At 7.35 P.M. it was reported that she was lying comfortably, high and dry. The weather was fine, but later it became threatening, with squalls of heavy rain and wind, and at 10.30 P.M.

the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched and found the vessel to be the auxiliary fishing smack Alice, of New Brighton, with a crew of three. The Alice refloated at 12.45 A.M., and the life-boat escorted her into the channel to a safe anchorage near the Brazil Buoy. There the examination vessel ordered her to remain until daylight. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30 A.M. - Rewards, £10 10s.