Skegness, Lincolnshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the 12-feetboat Bluebelle, which was fitted with an outboard motor, had been last seen at two o'clock heading northwards and that she had enough fuel to last only an hour. There was a strong westerly wind with a rough sea, and the tide was flooding. At 5.30 the life-boat The Cuttle put out. She was joined in the search until dusk by a helicopter. After a fruitless search the life-boat returned to her station at five o'clock in the morning. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 18th June a further message was received from the coast- guard that the motor boat, with a boy on board, had been picked up by the Swedish vessel Stallaria five miles south-south-west of the Dowsing light- vessel and that the boy appeared to have suffered no ill effects. At 4.50 the life-boat put out with a doctor on board.

She met the Stallaria at the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. The boy and his boat were taken on board the life-boat and brought to Skegness, where the boy was met by his parents. The life- boat returned to her station at 7.30..