Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the local police informed the honorary secretary that cries for help could be heard from the entrance to the river Axe. The life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched at 6.30 in a moderate south-westerly wind and a corresponding sea. It was just after low water. A police car had driven along Brean Down, and when the life- boat arrived at the position given the car's light was beamed on to the casu- alty. This was an upturned boat, to which a man was clinging. The man was taken on board the life-boat, where he was given first-aid treatment and rum. The honorary medical adviser was waiting at the life-boat station when the man was landed shortly before 7.30.

The life-boat was then re-housed..