New Brighton, Cheshire. At noon on the 31st of August, 1958, the motor mechanic's wife told the coxswain that a message had been received that a motor launch was in difficulties north of Seacombe stage. At 12.30 the life- boat Norman B. Corlett put out in a smooth sea. There was a gentle south- south-easterly wind and a flood tide.

The life-boat reached the position and found two boats, one a converted ship's boat and the other an old local fishing boat, secured alongside each other and lying to a single anchor. The anchor was not holding, and with the flood tide the boats, which had a total of nine people on board, were in danger ofbeing swept under Seacombe landing stage. The coxswain manoeuvred the life-boat alongside, and after the second coxswain had cut the anchor rope both vessels were taken in tow to Birkenhead.

The life-boat reached her station at 1.30. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £1 6s..