Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small pulling boat was in difficulties half-a-mile east of the south pier light. There was a moderate westerly breeze. The weather was fine.

At 1.52 the life-boat Isaac and Mary Bo/ton was launched at high water.

She found the boat and picked up three men, who were exhausted. With the rowing boat in tow she then made for the oil wharf, South Shields, where the three men were landed. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.31..