Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Preston pilot cutter St. Anne had asked for the help of the life-boat as she had broken down one mile south of Petes light. The life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt left her moorings at 10.10 in a fresh west-north-westerly wind and a rough sea. It was an hour and a quarter before high water. The life-boat found the cutter with a crew of six in heavy breaking seas with her ruddercarried away and dragging her anchor.

She took her in tow to the navigation barge off Lytham and reached her moorings at 11.45..