Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 9.9 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the Black Middens Rocks. At 9.32 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a calm sea.

There was a light south-easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was ebbing.

There was thick fog and visibility was not more than three hundred yards.

The life-boat found the steam trawler Polar Prince, of North Shields, with a crew of nine hard ashore on the rock and sand. As the tide ebbed she developed a heavy list to starboard, but it was not until the tide had begun to flood that the life-boat was able to come alongside. Eventually the Polar Prince was re-floated with the help of the life-boat, which returned to her station, arriving at 4.10.—Rewards to the crew, £18 5*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 8s..