IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.

on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one o'clock the IRB launched in a moderate south-westerly breeze and choppy sea. It was high water. The life-boat Maria Noble launched at 1.15 in support of the IRB, which came up with the yacht Dee Gypsy and transferred her two crew to the life-boat. The yacht was taken in tow by the life-boat. She returned to her station at 2.10 a.m. The IRB returned at 1.35 a.m..