Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker British Rover, anchored two miles from the Tyne north pier, had a very sick man on board who ought to be landed. At 8.44 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a gentle south-south-easterly breeze.

There was a slight swell, and there were fog patches. It was one hour before low water. The life-boat went alongside the tanker and took the sick man on board.

She returned to the North Shields ferry landing, where the honorary medical adviser immediately went aboard the life-boat to examine the patient. He had suspected appendicitis and was taken by ambulance to hospital. The life-boat reached her station at 10.20..