The S.S.. Ousebridge
JULY 29TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.35 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had struck a mine. A fresh N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The No. 2 motor lifeboat Edmund and Mary Robinson put out at 9.49 A.M. and spoke a pilot boat when near the Crosby Light-vessel. The pilot boat had on board thirty-seven survivors of the S.S.. Ousebridge, of West Hartlepool, including three injured men. Two other members of the crew were missing. The pilot boat hadin tow the ship’s boat with two pilot apprentices on board, and at her request the lifeboat took over the tow. She landed the apprentices in Liverpool, where the pilot boat had landed the 37 survivors. The lifeboat then took the ship’s boat to Birkenhead and returned to her station at 12.50 P.M.- Rewards £5 3s. 9d..