Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 12.16 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small pleasure fishing boat was drifting one mile east of Cullercoats and making what appeared to be distress signals. At 12.30 the life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton was launched at low water in a strong south-south-westerly wind and a choppy sea. She found the converted ship's boat Emily of South Shields with seven men on board. The boat's engine had broken down and the men were transferred to the life-boat. The coxswain put two of his crew aboard the Emily, and the life-boat then took her in tow. Rough water was en- countered on the return trip, and the cabin windows of the Emily were stove in before she reached the River Tyne.

The seven men were landed at North Shields landing stage, and the life-boat reached her station at 2.35. Rewards to the crew, £7 4s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 14s..