Boulmer, Northumberland. At 6.55 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on the south side of Dunstan- borough Castle. At 7.19 the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched in a slight swell, with a gentle north-north- easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide.

The life-boat found the Polish trawler Arko aground on Nova Scotia Island four and a half miles north of Boulmer.

She stood by until the trawler was high and dry, and after the trawler's crew had landed returned to her station.

At noon she put out again to stand by while attempts were made to refloat the Arko, but these were unsuccessful and the trawler finally broke up and became a total wreck. Rewards to the crew, £12 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 15s..