Happy Wanderer
CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Barrow, Lancashire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, the Walney lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near the Bar buoy. There was a light easterly breeze with a smooth sea. At 7.30 the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched on the ebbing tide. On reaching the position given she found the cabin cruiser Happy Wanderer with her engine broken down. The life-boat towed the Happy Wanderer to her moorings at Roa Island and then returned to her station, which she reached at 8.20..