Amble, Northumberland. At 8.10 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary of the North Sunderland station asked the Amble honorary secretary if the Amble life-boat would relieve the North Sunder- land life-boat, which had been standing by the Dutch motor vessel Calvijn of The Hague since 11.15 in the morning. The Amble life-boat Millie Walton therefore put out at 8.25. The weather was fine with a light westerly wind and a slight sea, and it was two hours before low water. As the casualty, which was mak- ing water, had been beached to await the tide, the life-boat stood by in the harbour until midnight and then made for the vessel on the flood tide. She stood by her until the Calvijn was towed by a tug into Amble at three o'clock the following morning. The life-boat finally returned to her station at 3.15..