FEBRUARY 14TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a life-boat was required by a tanker on fire between Ql and Q2 Buoys in the Queen’s Channel. A light northerly wind was blowing with a slight sea.

The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 2.19, and at 3.50 reached the S.S. Sharpsburg, of Philadelphia, a ten-thousand-ton tanker, near the Bar Lightvessel.

The Sharpsbug carried a crew of about fifty and was laden with petrol and aeroplanes. Dock Board tenders were dealing with the fire, and some of the tanker’s crew were taken off by a naval frigate. The lifeboat stood by until 4.45, when the fire was extinguished, and returned to her station, arriving at 7.15. - Rewards, £20 5s. 6d..