OLD LIFE-BOAT WEATHERED STORM Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a two masted yacht was seen off the Wall End buoy, apparently receiving a heavy battering from the seas. There was a west-by-south wind of near gale force and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing.

The honorary secretary and the coxswain went to a vantage point, but, owing to the visibility, they could only see an object they could not identify in the position stated. They kept this object under observation and found it was the Nelson buoy. The honorary secretary conferred with the coastguard and it was decided to launch the life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt as a precautionary measure. No trace of the reported yacht was found, but an Eventide class yacht bound from Barrow to Hesketh Bank was encountered.

The life-boat, at this vessel's request, escorted her over the Kibble bar and returned to her station at 6.40 p.m.

It was later established that the first reported vessel was one of the Institution's old life-boats that had been converted and rigged as a yawl. This vessel was bound for Liverpool, where she arrived safely..