New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a motor cabin cruiser, on passage from Conway to Eastham, had arrived at the Bar lightvessel short of fuel. As no other suitable boat was available, it was decided to send the life-boat, and after ten gallons of petrol had been collected the life-boat Norman B.

Corlett put out at 4.25. The weather was fine and hazy with a calm sea, light airs and an ebb tide. While the petrol was being transferred to the cabin cruiser Seagull, the man on board told the coxswain that the boat's engine was unreliable. The life-boat therefore towed the Seagull to moorings at New Brighton and reached her station at 8.45. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 12s..