HELICOPTER FOR BOYS Hoylake, Cheshire. At 4.35 p.m.

on 28th May, 1964, the Formby coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that two schoolboys had been seen on what was assumed to be a rubber dinghy, drifting out to sea a quarter of a mile north of Hilbre Island. At 5.15 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched in a moderate south-south-easterly wind and a slight sea. The life-boat found the boys on rubber mattresses half a mile west of HE.

6 buoy, rescued them and landed them at East Hoyle. A R.A.F. helicopter from Valley requested by Hoylake police landed alongside the life-boat, took the boys on board and flew them to the life-boat station. From there they were taken by car to hospital. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 6.15..