Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a canoe had cap- sized two miles south-west of Spurn Point. At 3.50 the life-boat City of Bradford III was launched an hour and a half before low water in a light south- easterly breeze and a slight sea. She made for the position but was unable to find the canoe. A message was then received that a boy and a girl with their canoe had been picked up by the coaster Tolsta two miles south of Spurn.

The coxswain made a rendezvous with the coaster, and the children weretransferred to the life-boat. They were landed at Grimsby at four o'clock, and an ambulance took them both to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 5.20. The girl's father, who was waiting at Grimsby, gave the cox- swain a donation to the Institution's funds. Paid permanent crew..