Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off Howick Seahouses farm.

At 3.58 on the ebbing tide the life-boat Clarissa Langdon was launched. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a slight sea. The life-boat made for the position given and found a Heron-class sailing dinghy with a man and a boy on board trying to row ashore. They were taken on board the life-boat and given hot drinks, as both were cold and wet. The life-boat returned with the dinghy in tow to Boulmer, where the man and the boy were landed. The man who had been rescued had gone out in his Heron- class sailing dinghy to the help of the boy, whose sailing dinghy Sea Elf had been seen to be in difficulties and had eventually capsized. The life-boat there- fore returned to the area and found the capsized dinghy Sea Elf, which she towed into Boulmer. The life-boat finally reached her station at 5.55..