North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 11.50 on the morning of the 28th of January, 1960, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Kindly Light was overdue from fishing and might be in difficulty.

At 12.5 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched with the bowman in command in an east-north-easterly gale. The sea was very rough, and it was two and a half hours before high water. The coxswain and second coxswain, who were aboard the fishing boat Cluaran, heard the radio messages being sent bythe life-boat to Cullercoats radio station, and the Cluaran joined the life-boat in the search for the missing boat. The Kindly Light was found in difficulties in the heavy seas three miles south-east of Seahouses, and the life-boat and the Cluaran escorted her to harbour, arriv- ing at 1.15. Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 8s..