Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 12.56 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was flying distress signals off Tynemouth beach. The life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton was launched at 1.2 in a light north-westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was two hours before low water. When the life-boat reached the fishing coble Fisher Lass she found that one of her crew of six, a sixteen-year- old boy, had injured his arm in the haul- ing gear, and that the boat's propellershaft was broken. The boy was taken on board the life-boat and given first aid treatment by the bowman. The life-boat landed him, and he was taken by ambulance to hospital. The life- boat then returned to the Fisher Lass and towed her to harbour, arriving at 2.15.

Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 9s..