Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ada of Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick Rocks three miles north of Boulmer.

The life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched in dense fog at 3.57. There was a heavy swell and the tide was flooding. On finding the trawler the life-boat went alongside. Shortly after- wards the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop reached the scene, and the life-boat ran a tow rope from the trawler to the hospital ship. As the tide made, the De Hoop successfully towed the trawler off the rocks. The life-boat stood by while this was done and then returned to her station. Property salvage case..