New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.25 a.m.

on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a collision had occurred off Pluckington Bank buoy and that a coaster was sinking. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went out at high water, 6.45, in a light south-easterly breeze and moderate seas.

She found the motor vessel Ballylesson and stood by until the damaged vessel was safely beached at King's Wall. The life-boat returned to her station at 8 a.m..