NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the Burbo Bank, half a mile south-west of the Crosby Light-vessel.

A light easterly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth, but the weather was foggy.

The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 9.13, in charge of seventy-year-old ex-coxswain W. H. .Jones, in the absence of the other coxswains, and found the Norwegian steamer Olev, under the Ministry of War Transport, bound with coal from Barry to Liverpool. After standing by for a time the life-boat was informed that the steamer was not damaged and was expected to get off on the rising tide. She arrived back at New Brighton at 12.30 P.M.

- Rewards, £5 5s..