New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.10 on the evening of the 7th May, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of three was in distress off Cressington Park. Twelve minutes later, when the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out, there was a strong westerly wind with a choppy sea. It was high water. The life-boat found the yacht Rondinella broken down off Otterspool, took her in tow and made for Rock Ferry. She could not be berthed there because of shallow water.

The life-boat beached her at New Brighton, reaching her station again at 7.36..