Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 9.10 p.m.

on ist December, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the Fleetwood trawler Prince Philip, on her way back to harbour, was alongside a smaller trawler, the Gien Mie, which had stripped her gearbox. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 9.35 with the second coxswain in command and went to the aid of the Gien Mie. There was a gentle south-easterly breeze with a slight swell, and it was an hour and a half to low water. The life-boat found the Gien Mie about a mile south-west of the Danger Patch buoy and took the trawler in tow to Fleetwood. The life-boat reached her station at 12.10 a.m..