New Brighton, Cheshire - At 6.30 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was aground on the revetment wall a quarter of a mile northwest of the New Brighton lighthouse. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett was launched at 6.50 in a light north-easterly wind and a smooth sea. It was just past low water.

At 7 o'clock the life-boat reached the m.f.v. Orian of Fleetwood, and stood by until she refloated on the rising tide.

The life-boat then escorted her as far as New Brighton, and returned to her station at 7.20..