Workington, Cumberland - At 11.34 p.m. on 5th February, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boaiJanetta, with a crew of two, had broken down six and a half miles north west of Workington. At 11.54 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings in a south south westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was two hours before high water.

The life-boat came up with the Janetta at 12.25 a.m. and took her in tow to Workington, returning to her station at 1.30..