DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, members of the Arnside sailing club informed the coxswain that one of their members in the sailing dinghy Aries was missing.

He had last been seen off Wyre light, Fleetwood, that morning. There was a fresh east-south-easterly breeze blowing with a choppy sea when the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 7.28 on a flooding tide. A helicopter was also asked for, but none was immediately available. The life-boat made radio contact with the mechanic of the Fleetwood life-boat, who reported that he could see the Aries off Fleetwood, and the life-boat came up with the Aries at 9.5. The owner was taken on board and given food, and the life-boat towed the dinghy to Heysham and then returned to her station, arriving at 11.45..