North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 5.27 on the morning of the 29th of February, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on Beadnell Point.

At 5.45 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched one hour after high water in a moderate south-south-easterly wind and a moderate swell. She found the motor vessel Yewglen of Glasgow and stood by her. Later she ferried twenty salvage workers ashore who had been jettisoning some of the motor vessel's cargo of cement. Five of the crew of the Yewglen walked ashore at low water, and the life-boat reached her station at 5.30 in the evening. Property salvage case..