New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 20th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to have broken away from two tugs which had been towing her. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings at eleven o'clock in a strong north-north-westerly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat met the vessel believed to have broken adrift, the s.s. Olefoss of Oslo, near the Burbo buoy. Her tow rope had not in fact broken, but she was sheering badly.

The life-boat escorted the two tugs and their tow to New Brighton and then returned to her moorings, arriving at 12.25..