AID FOR PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. The Preston Harbour Master telephoned the honorary secretary at 11.35 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, stating that the pilot cutter St. Margaret had broken down and was drifting with her lights out half a mile south of the twelveandahalfmilePerch. At 11.55 the life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt left her moorings. It was half an hour to high water; the weather was overcast with a west-south-westerly wind gusting to near gale force. The life-boat found the 2O-ton cutter, with a crew of two and three pilots on board, anchored at the given position. The vessel was taken in tow back to the navigation barge, and the lifeboat returned to her moorings at 1.45 a.m..