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Good Fellowship

Blyth, Northumberland. At 9.40 on the evening of the 26th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident of Seaton Sluice had seen a red flare two miles east of Collywell Bay. Further enquiries were made, after which the life-boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was launched at 10.30 two and a half hours after low water. There was a light south-south-easterly wind and a smooth sea. The life-boat found the motor fishing vessel Good Fellowship, which had engine trouble. The vessel had a crew of four. The life-boat escorted her into Blyth harbour and reached her station at 11.20. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 8s..