Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam traw- ler Longscar, which was making for Hartlepool, had boiler trouble. At 2.30 the life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched in an east-south-easterly gale with a very rough sea. It was two and a half hours after low water. The life-boat met the trawler and escorted her intoharbour, reaching her station at 3.30.

Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..