Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.

At 7.38 a.m. on 24th November, 1965, the Dutch vessel Herta was reported aground three miles north-east of the Nelson buoy. The life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt went to the scene at 8.20 in a west-north-westerly gale and a very rough sea. It was two hours after low water. The life-boat found the Herta had refloated on the rising tide and was being swept by heavy breaking seas. She escorted the Dutch vessel as far as the Lytham anchorage, then the Herta continued to Preston and the life-boat returned to her station, which she reached at 10.30 a.m..