Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 5.50 on the evening of the 12th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam trawler Spurn- ella, of Fleetwood, was ashore on the banks of Lune Deep. The life-boat Anne Letitia Russell was launched one hour before low water at 5.55 in a fresh west-south-westerly wind and a rough sea. She found the Trinity House vessel Argus standing by the Spurnella, and with some help from the life-boat the Argus refloated the trawler.

The life-boat then accompanied both vessels to an anchorage off Wyre light before returning to her station at ten o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £12 19s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 4s..