Barrow, Lancashire - At 1.23 a.m.

on 23rd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was overdue from a fishing trip offBiggar bank. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 1.45. It was two hours after high water. Using her searchlight and parachute flares the life-boat searched the area. Loud whistling was heard off Earnse point and the life-boat found the dinghy with a man and his 13-year-old son on board. The dinghy's outboard engine had been swamped and she did not carry lights or flares. The man and the boy, who were very wet, were taken on board the life-boat, which then took the dinghy in tow to Ramsden dock. The life-boat returned to her station at 5.35..