SPEED BOAT TOWED IN New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.10 p.m. on I2th March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a speed boat in the River Mersey was in difficulties and needed assistance. The life-boat, Norman B. Corlett was launched at 6.18 in a light south-easterly breeze and a smooth sea.

It was low water. At 6.40 the speed boat with her engine broken down and two people on board, was taken in tow and brought back to New Brighton, and the life-boat returned to her station at 6.55..