Hartlepool, Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of 3rd of July, 1960, the second coxswain was informed that a speed- boat had capsized off the breakwater.

The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at three o'clock in a moderate east-south- easterly breeze and a moderate sea.

The tide was half ebb. Soon after the life-boat had left the harbour the speed- boat was seen to be in tow, and the life- boat made for her station. On the way back she closed a small fishing coble, and because of the state of the sea the coxswain advised the skipper to return to harbour. The life-boat es- corted the coble in and reached her station at 4.50. Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..