DRIFTING VESSEL At 2.31 p.m. on gth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was drifting in a moderate sea and a fresh south-easterly breeze off the Point of Ayre. The tide was ebbing. At 2.55 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched and found that the fishing vessel's engines had broken down. The life-boat towed her into harbour and returned to her station at 5.16. A donation was made to the Institution's funds..