MAY 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.15 in the morning the police reported a vessel was in trouble off Egremont stage, and on enquiry the honorary secretary was told that part of the stage, with a searchlight and soldiers on it, had been broken adrift and was being carried up the river. At 1.50 the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings.

A westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat found that the steamer Westlands had drifted on to the stage on the flood tide, had broken it away and was still pressing against the stage. As the men on the stage were all right, she stood by until the Mersey Dock vessel Vigilant arrived. She then put the marine surveyor from the Vigilant on board the steamer and continued to stand by while the Vigilant towed the Westlands away. When the steamer had safely anchored in the river the life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 4.25 in the morning. - Rewards, £10 10s..