JUNE 10TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. About 12.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station noticed a yacht sailing on an easterly course towards the Rock Channel, but running into shallow water and a breaking sea. A strong north-westerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough.

After consultation with the coastguard he launched the motor life-boat Oldham at 1.27, in readiness to help if needed. In the meantime the coastguard had told New Brighton about the yacht, and at 1.23 the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson went out. She reached the yacht before the Hoylake life-boat. She was the Induna, of Egremont, with four on board, and was then a mile-and-a-half north-west of No. 1 Red Rock Buoy. She was making headway up the channel under a jib. Her crew declined a tow, and the life-boat escorted her to New Brighton. While doing this she had seen three other yachts, which were nearing home on their return from a race to the Isle of Man, so she put out again, went down the Queen’s Channel, met the yachts, the Puffin, Sheila, and Pastime, and escorted them until they reached New Brighton. The Hoylake lifeboat got back to her station at three in the afternoon, and the New Brighton boat five minutes later. - Rewards : New Brighton, £5 5s. ; Hoylake, £7 14s. 6d..