LIFE-BOAT BREAKS ADRIFT AT NIGHT Lytham-StAnne's, Lancashire. During the night of the 29th September, 1962, the Workington life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX, which was at moorings off Lytham after survey broke adrift and was driven ashore, being slightly damaged. During the night the wind increased to hurricane force, gusting up to 90 m.p.h. The next morning the life-boat, manned by a Lytham crew, returned to Freckleton for repairs and on her way came up with a capsized dinghy, whose crew of two were in the water. The two men were taken on board the life-boat, and the dinghy was made fast until a rescue launch arrived from the Ribble cruising club. The men were transferred to the launch, which took the dinghy in tow, and the life-boat continued on her passage to Freckleton..