YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a water-logged dinghy. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The weather was fine. The life-boat Norman B.

Corlett left her moorings at 5.40 on a flooding tide and made for the position given. She came up with the casualty at 5.55 and found that the two people had been landed by the beach patrol in a privately owned speed boat. The life-boat towed the dinghy to Harrison drive and then returned to her station, arriving at 6.35..