North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Long- stone lighthouse keepers had reported a boat flying distress signals about half a mile south of the lighthouse. At 12.55 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched an hour and a half before low water in a gentle south-easterly wind and a slight sea. She found the fishing coble Glad Tidings of North Sunderland, which had a crew of three, with her engine broken down. The life-boat towed the coble to harbour, arriving at 3.50. Rewards to the crew, £8 14s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 9s..