FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO DOCK Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, one of the keepers of Walney lighthouse told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was anchored near the Outer Bar buoy and had just released a smoke float.

The life-boat Herbert Leigh put out at ten o'clock in a light north-bywesterly breeze and a smooth sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat found the local fishing boat Briar, whose owner was on board, with her engine broken down. She took her in tow to Ramsden dock, arriving at 11.20, and then returned to her station, which she reached at 11.40..