NEAR ROSSALL At 11.22 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a few hundred yards off the beach at Rossall. The life-boat crew, already standing by in the boathouse, were telephoned when an eight-foot dinghy, with a seasick person aboard, was seen.

At 11.35 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell launched in a fresh-south-westerly breeze and slight sea. It was 45 minutes before high water. The life-boat picked up the occupant and his boat and returned to her station at i p.m..