New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the north-west, the sea was very rough and the tide ebbing. The life-boat found that the dinghy had beached off Harrison Drive and that her crew were safe, but the coastguard then asked if the life-boat would search the sea and make sure that no other boats needed help. The Hoylake life-boat had been launched to a yacht reported to be in distress in the river Dee, but the life-boat was damaged during the launching operations so the New Brighton life-boat made a search. The yacht was later stated to be at Mostyn so the New Brighton life-boat accompanied her to a safe position off Hoylake and then returned to New Brighton, arriving at i.30 a.m. on the 25th..