New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.0 in the afternoon on the 7th of August, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that a cutter rigged yacht was off Formby Point. Twenty minutes later he said conditions were bad and her sails had been damaged. At 1.47 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings and reached the yacht then leaving the Queens Channel under a jib. She was a converted ship's boat named Permit, with a crew of three.

The life-boat took her in tow as the sea was rough with a moderate west- north - westerly gale blowing, and brought her up against the ebb-tide to Rock Ferry. There she anchored in the calm water near the pier. The life-boat then returned to her moorings at 6.40.—Rewards, £10..