Barrow, Lancashire. At 1.15 on the morning of the llth June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with two men aboard was overdue and that anxiety was felt for their safety. At two o'clock, when the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched, there was a slight north-north-easterly breeze with a calm sea and an ebbing tide. Ten minutes later the fishing boat Miranda was found one mile south of the life-boat station. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to Barrow and returned to her station at 3.30..