North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9.45 on the night of the 22nd of March, 1957, a local Trinity House official called on the coxswain and asked if the life-boat would launch to bring ashore an injured man from the Longstone lighthouse, as the sea was too rough for the Trinity House tender to be used. At 10.16 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched, with a doctor on board, in a moderate sea.

There was a moderate southerly breeze blowing and the tide was ebbing.

Because of the state of the tide the life-boat could not draw alongside the lighthouse's landing stage, and a land- ing had to be made about two hundred yards from the lighthouse. The man had at least one broken bone in his leg, and his injuries were attended to by two members of the life-boat's crew who had qualified in first aid. The doctor gave the patient some morphia, and he was carried by stretcher over the rocks to the life-boat. The life- boat arrived back at her station at 1.9, where the injured man was transferrcd to a waiting ambulance. Letters of thanks were received from Trinity House in Holyhead and in London.— Rewards to the crew, £10 10,?.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 12.?. Re- funded to the Institution by Trinity House..