Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.25 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1951, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler Loch Fleet, of Aberdeen, through the Cullercoats radio station. She was making water and needed help ninety-two miles east by north of Tyne Pier. At 9.1 she wirelessed that she had nearly stopped and was still leaking, and at 9.2 the coastguard reported that the trawler Kingston Pearl had wirelessed that she was forty miles south of her and goingto her help. Nothing more was heard from the Kingston Pearl, so at 9.27 the life-boat Tynesider was launched.

The sea was very rough with a strong northerly gale blowing. About 10.30 the life-boat received a wireless mes- sage from the Loch Fleet, which had a crew of nineteen, that her mate had been injured. At 1.55 in the after- noon another message came from the Kingston Pearl. She was then only four miles south of the Loch Fleet.

Her next message said that she had now reached the Loch Fleet, and found her in no immediate danger of sinking. The skipper of the Kingston Pearl advised the life-boat, which was now twenty miles away, to return to Tynemoutft, but asked her to wait there for the Loch Fleet and be ready to land the mate. The life-boat arrived at her station at 9.45 that night, and after her crew had had some soup she put out again to meet the trawlers, then about two miles off the harbour, but they made for The Humber, so she was recalled to her station, arriving at 12.45 the next morning.