FLEETWOOD MOTOR VESSEL BREAKS DOWN Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.30 a.m.

on Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares were being burnt about half a mile east of Danger Patch buoy.

A coaster reported by radio that she was investigating and later reported that the Fleetwood m.v. Eleanora of nine tons had broken down and anchored half a mile south-east of the Patch buoy. She requested life-boat assistance. Although the vessel was in no immediate danger the weather forecast was not good and the life-boat, City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 1.40 a.m. It was two hours after high water. There was a light breeze from the north-east and a slight sea. The casualty and crew of two were located and towed in, the life-boat being rehoused at five minutes past four..