100,000th life saved ON WEDNESDAY, May 28, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the New Brighton, Merseyside, honorary secretary that a boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy 200 yards off shore near Formby Point. The ILB was launched at 1435 in a moderate to fresh north-easterly wind and a calm sea. It was 23 minutes after high water.

The 13-year-old boy was found about two cables out to sea and he was taken ashore to where the Coastguard were waiting. He was wrapped in blankets and taken to the Coastguard station before going home. The boy, Stuart Nixon, was the 100,000th life to be rescued since the RNLI began to keep detailed records. A certificate was presented to him to record this historic occasion and also to the lifeboat station..