YACHT REFLOATED IN NEAR GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.7 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel abreast of no. 8 buoy, and that several pleasure and fishing boats were near by.

By 1.30 these boats had returned to harbour. They had been unable to give any help because of the weather conditions.

There was a south-southwesterly wind of near gale force and a rough sea. The tide was half flood. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 1.35, and on reaching the position she found the yacht Osterling, which had a crew of two, bumping heavily. A tow line was connected, and after waiting half an hour for the tide to make, the yacht was refloated, and the life-boat towed her to Fleetwood. The life-boat reached her station at 3.45. The owner of the yacht made a gift to the life-boat crew..