Whilst the new Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was being navigated from Liverpool to her station on the 27th June by a party of New Brighton Life-boatmen, the attention of the Coxswain was drawn by a passing dredger to a small yacht, which appeared to be in diffi- culties near the North Wall, Liverpool.

The Coxswain bore down on her and found her to be the yacht Drake, of New Brighton, with two young men on board. They were quite unable to manage her, and the tide was drifting them on to the Wall. They hailed the Life-boat and asked for a line to be thrown them to tow them clear. This was done, and the boat and her occu- pants towed to New Brighton. Had the Life-boat not been there to render this assistance, the yacht would have undoubtedly been smashed against the Wall and the two men in all probability drowned..