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Le Cateau

Lytham-St Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.55 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1958, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that the owner of the motor yacht Le Cateau of Glasson Dock had rowed ashore to report that his vessel was aground on the south side of the Ribble estuary, half a mile north of Lytham pier. The life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, put out at 10.40 with the yacht's owner on board in a moderatesea. There was a moderate south- westerly wind and a flood tide. The life-boat towed the yacht into deep water, where she was anchored inshore of the navigation barge. The life-boat reached her station at 1.15 in the morning. Rewards to the crew, £12 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 15s..