Fleetwood, Lancashire. At i a.m. on 3ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.v. Peter Leigh had broken down two and a half miles east of Morecambe Bay lightvessel.

The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 1.40 in a moderate east-south-easterly breeze and smooth sea.The tide was ebbing.

The m.v. Pointsman had already taken the Peter Leigh in tow and the life-boat was asked to escort the two vessels to the Bar lightvessel; this being done the life-boat returned to her station which she reached at eight o'clock..