Barrow, Lancashire. At 3.53 p.m.

on iyth October, 1965, a member of the crew told the motor mechanic that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties with a broken mast three quarters of a mile south by east of the station. At 4 o'clock the IRB launched in a moderate westsouth- westerly breeze and a choppy sea.

She found the sailing dinghy Taurus, with two people on board. The dinghy had been holed when the mast had broken. She was taken in tow to Roa Island, then the IRB returned to her station, which was reached at 4.30 p.m..