Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 12.8 early on the morning of the 26th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat was in distress off Druridge Bay. At 12.30 the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched in a calm sea. There was a light easterly breeze and it was low water. The life-boat found the yacht Hazel with a man and his son aboard.

The Hazel had developed engine trouble, and after the man and his son had been taken on board, the life-boat towed the yacht to Newbiggin, reaching her station at 4.30. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 8s..