MARCH 29TH . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 3.50 in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat was ashore on the Burbo Bank and that seas were washing over her. Two men and a boy were on board. A strong west-southwest, wind was blowing and the sea was rough.

At 4.5 the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched, and found the fishing boat Agnes, of Preston, ashore. There was not enough water to get alongside.

The life-boat went back for a punt and again went out to the Agnes. She took off the two men and the boy and, leaving the boat at anchor, landed them. She returned to her station at 5.50. - Rewards, £10 4s. 6d.