Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 8 a.m. on 30th September, 1969, it was learnt that the cabin cruiser Pinnace had broken down off the Morecambe bay lightvessel and required assistance.

At 9.7 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a fresh westerly wind with a choppy sea. It was low water. The life-boat came up with the cabin cruiser being towed by the m.v. Ansgaretum. The motor vessel slipped the tow, and the life-boat took the cabin cruiser with her crew of three in tow to Fleetwood, returning to her station at 4.10p.m..