SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was drifting out to sea. It was low water with a rough sea and a north-westerly gale. At 6.55 the lifeboat Norman B. Corlett put out but meanwhile the boat's engine had been temporarily repaired and she had made her own way to New Brighton landing stage. The life-boat found her there and as requested by the three men, towed the craft back to the sand dredger John L.K.

from which they had sailed. The life-boat returned to her station at 7.45..