Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.42 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was drifting on to Seaton rocks. The life- boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was launched at 8.50, with the second coxswain in command, in a slight sea. A gentle south-south- easterly wind was blowing and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached the boat, which had three men on board, and a tow rope was made fast. The coastguard then learnt that a body had been seen in the water two hundred yards south of the west pier, and as the crew of the motor boat were in no immediate danger the coxswain was instructed to search for the body. The tow rope was disconnected, and the life-boat made a search but found only a dan buoy. She then returned to the motor boat, which by this time was high and dry. The life-boat was unable to come close enough to reconnect the tow- line and she stood by. The life-saving apparatus team then rigged their breeches buoy, and the life-boat was recalled to a position alongside the pier from which her crew could help the shore rescue team to land the three men from the motor boat. During the rescue operations another report was received of a man in the water, but this was again a false alarm. The three men were eventually landed, and the life- boat returned to her station, arriving at 12.15. Rewards to the crew, £10 16s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..