Liverpool Mercury August 1 1834

BOY SAVED

On Wednesday week about two o'clock in the morning, a young man named Wm
BARLOW, took one of the large landing boats from the Seacombe slip, for the
purpose of picking up a piece of wood which was floating in the river, when,
getting into the tide-way, and being altogether unable to manage the boat, he
was drifting down the river, and would in all probability have been carried out
to sea and drowned had he not been fortuously observed and rescued from his
perilous situation by Lieutenant WALKER, of the revenue cutter VIXEN, who was
returning in his boat from a vessel which he had been boarding around the
Rock. This is the tenth instance where Lieutenant WALKER has been instrumental
in saving a human life since he has been stationed in the river

Then I came across a letter in the Liverpool Mercury September 19 1834

ACCIDENTS BY WATER

To the Editor of the Liverpool Mercury

Sir - Not wishing to deprive an active officer and humane man of his just
praise, I beg to inform you that Mr John WALKER, Tide surveyor, commanding the
Vixen, and not myself, is the person who has so repeatedly saved his fellow
creatures from drowning in the river Mersey -
Yours & co. L. C. F. WALKER Lieut. R. N.
August 4 Inspector of the River