At 10 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a vessel was seen flashing a light about a quarter of a mile east of Kings Scar. There was a moderate north east by easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell launched at 10.5. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Gibralta aground on a sandbank. At 11.33, when the tide had flowed sufficiently, the Gibralta was refloated by the life-boat and towed to Fleetwood.

The life-boat arrived back at her station around midnight..