Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a half-decked fishing boat had anchored near the Bar buoy and that a man was waving a flag. There was a light north-north-westerly wind with a smooth sea and an ebb tide. At 4.55 the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched. She found the fishing boat Sheen with a crew of three near the Bar buoy with her engine broken down.

The men had tried to sail their boat, but had been unable to reach Barrow against the wind. They had no food, so the life-boat crew gave them soup, cocoa and biscuits and towed their boat to Barrow, arriving at 7.10 that evening..