Boulmer, Northumberland. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that three local fishing cobles appeared to be in difficulties. At 2.45, when the life- boat Clarissa Langdon was launched, there was a fresh south-easterly wind with a moderate sea and a flooding tide.

She escorted the cobles to safety and returned to her station at 3.45..