Hartlepool, Co, Durham. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 12thSeptember, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off the Heugh break- water. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at 9.45 in a fresh south-westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was two hours before low water. In the meantime a further message had been received that a small motor boat with two men on board was long overdue from a fishing trip. The life-boat found the motor boat two and a half miles north-north-east of Hartlepool broken down and drift- ing. Her crew of two were transferred to the life-boat, and after taking the boat in tow the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.30..