JULY 18TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. While the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board steamer Denham was engaged on survey work she struck a mine about two hundred yards south-west of Rock 3 Block buoy. She was completely wrecked, throwing her crew of nine into the sea. A beach patrol reported to the police, who informed the life-boat station, and at 2.50 in the afternoon the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched in a light north-westerly breeze and a smooth sea.

While on her way the life-boat was hailed by a tug which told her that a badly injured survivor was on board a Dock Board hopper. She went close to the promenade and asked a policeman to call an ambulance to New Brighton ferry. She then took a first-aid man to the hopper, brought him and the injured man ashore, and went out again to search for other survivors, but found none.

She returned to her station at 5.45. - Rewards, £4 12s. 6d.