New Brighton, Cheshire. At 12.35 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961 ,the coastguard informed the honor- ary secretary that a pilot boat was stand- ing by the motor vessel Paul Westers of Groningen, which had engine trouble, off the Q8 buoy in the river Mersey.

The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out at 12.49 in a strong south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide was half- flood. The life-boat reached the motor vessel and found her almost out of control. She escorted her and the pilot boat up the river as far as New Brighton, and as no further help was needed, the life-boat returned to her moorings at 4.15..