Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was stranded on the bank of the river Tees near no. 5 light buoy. There were light south-westerly airs and thick fog, with a smooth sea. It was flood tide when the life-boat The Sarah Jane and James Season was launched at 12.40. As she approached the position given a man was heard calling for help, and when he was found, a life-belt was floated down to him on a line, and he was dragged on board the life-boat. He was suffering badly from exposure, having been in the water for over an hour. The coxswain asked for an ambulance to meet the life- boat. This was arranged, and the man was taken to hospital. Apparently he and two other people had been digging for bait, and when the fog came down he became separated and lost his way.

He then walked towards the river and was cut off by the tide, but found a marker beacon and secured himself to it.

When the life-boat arrived water was up to his armpits, and as the tide rises another seven or eight feet at this point, he would undoubtedly have beendrowned. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.20..