Blackpool, Lancashire. At 6.10 p.m.

on 13th August, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a boy was in difficulties in a small canoe south of central pier. The IRB was at once launched in a moderate east-south-easterly breeze and choppy sea. She came up with the canoe and found the boy did not have enough strength to paddle against the wind and the tide. The IRB brought the boy and the canoe ashore and returned to her station at 6.45 p.m..