North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 9.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Longstone lighthouse-keeper had reported that a vessel had hove to on or near Knave- stone Rock. At ten o'clock the life- boat Grace Darling was launched in a slight sea. There was a moderate south-easterly wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the Polish fishing vessel Szpak aground on the rock. The crew of eighteen were in a state of some distress, and the life-boat stood by until the fishing vessel refloated on the tide. The Szpak was badly damaged and had lost her rudder, and she was taken in tow by a sister vessel.

The life-boat reached her station at 6.30. Rewards to the crew, £20 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 15s..