TOW FOR CONVERTED SHIP'S BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.12 on the night of the 9th June, 1963, the Walney Island lighthouse keeper rang up the coxswain to say that three people in a small boat were signalling with a flag a mile south-west of the lighthouse. At 10.27 the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched. There was a light northeasterly breeze with a smooth sea, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found a 16-foot converted ship's boat, with two men and a woman on a pleasure cruise, broken down. She towed the boat to moorings near Barrow docks and then returned to her station, arriving at 12.35..