Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.49 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that the trawler Polar Prince had sprung a leak twenty-four miles north-east of Tynemouth. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 12.15 in a heavy swell. There was a moderate south-south-westerly wind and an ebb tide. The tug Hendon also left at the same time. A number of vessels in the vicinity of the Polar Prince were searching too, and it was the tanker Adherity which found the trawler first and directed the tug to her.

A quarter of an hour later the life-boat came up with the Polar Prince eighteen miles north-east of Tynemouth. The trawler had several feet of water in her engine room and was being towed by the Hendon. The life-boat escorted the two vessels to the Tyne and arrived back at her station at six o'clock.

Rewards to the crew, £18 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £5 8s..