Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 13th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that a man and his young son had not returned to Paddy's Hole as expected from a fishing trip. At 6.48 the life-boat John and Lucy Cordingley was launched two and a half hours after high water. There was a fresh south-south-westerly wind and a slight sea. The life-boat made for the last known position of the fishing boat, which was three miles north of Tees Fairway buoy, and found the boat Ruth with the man and his eight-year- old son aboard. Their engine had broken down and they were unable to start a spare outboard motor, which they had taken with them. The man and the boy were taken aboard the life-boat, which towed the fishing boat, with two of the life-boat crew aboard, into Paddy's Hole. The life-boat reached her station at 7.52. A dona- tion was received from the man.

Rewards to the crew, £8 15s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £4 17s..