Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but found that the boat was too near the rocks for the cutter to come close enough. He came ashore, and at five o'clock the life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched. There was a moderate sea, a fresh south-south-westerly breeze was blowing, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat came up with the con- verted ship's life-boat Rosa Brown, which had a crew of four. With the help of a foyboat, which the coxswain had taken with him, a tow-rope was connected, and the life-boat took the Rosa Brown, whose engine had broken down, in tow. The life-boat reached her station at 5.36. Rewards to the crew, £10 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..