AIRCRAFT AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR FISHING BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.45 on the morning of the 26th February, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the fishing boat Signora of Peel had burnt flares twelve miles north-west-by-west of Haverigg Point. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 11.5 in a strong south-south-east breeze, a rough sea and a flooding tide. At 11.30 a Shackleton aircraft of the R.A.F. reported that the Signora was twenty miles north-west of Walney lighthouse. The aircraft guided the life-boat to the position, where the life-boat found that the Signora's crew of two had been taken off by the motor vessel Lairdsbank. The motor vessel had also taken the Signora in tow, but the tow parted. The life-boat then towed the fishing boat to Workington and returned to Barrow at fifteen minutes after midnight..