New Brighton, Cheshire - At noon on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a dinghy was in difficulties off the Derby bathing pool. The lifeboat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 12.13 in a near gale force westerly wind with a rough sea.

The tide was flooding. At 1 o'clock she came up with the dinghy half a mile off shore in Leasov/e bay. The crew of three were taken on board the life-boat and the dinghy taken in tow to New Brighton. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.20..