MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P.M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain.

The life-boat found the R.A.F. rescue launch No. 164 aground half a mile W.N.W. of C.10 Red Buoy. She had a crew of seven on board, and she had lost her propellers. The life-boat put men on board to help her get off and then towed her to a Mersey Docks and Harbour Board vessel lying in the main channel. The life-boat returned to her station at 11 P.M.. - Rewards, £15 10s..