CHILD AMONG FOUR RESCUED FROM YACHT Hoylake, Cheshire. Around 11.20 on the morning of the 30th July, 1962, a number of reports were received stating that a yacht had sunk off Sandhey slipway and that her crew were in the water.

A moderate south-west wind was blowing and the sea was calm. At 11.33 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched on the flooding tide. On reaching the position given the life-boat found that the yacht Lindy Lou had sunk and was lying on a sandbank in about ten feet of water. Two men, a woman and a child were picked up by the life-boat and brought ashore, and the life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 12.10..