MOTOR BROKE DOWN At 4 p.m. on 2yth October, 1965, the coxswain reported that three men in a small boat were in difficulties with their outboard motor broken down, near the Brazil buoy in the river Mersey. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went out at 4.18 in a moderate south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was two hours before low water. She reached the boat, which had secured a line from a dredger, at 4.28. The three men were taken on board the life-boat and their craft towed to New Brighton stage. The lifeboat returned to her station at 5 p.m..