TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and that her anchor seemed to be fouled. The life-boat Norman B.

Corlett left her moorings at two o'clock in a strong north-westerly wind and a rough sea. It was half an hour before high water. The life-boat found the yacht Tricia with six people on board.

They were taken aboard the life-boat, which then returned to New Brighton with the yacht in tow. The life-boat reached her station at 4.30..