Blyth, Northumberland. At 10.30 on the morning of the 14th October, 1961, the Blyth police informed the honorary secretary that a body had been seen floating in Colleywell Bay, and that as it was nearly low water no small boat could put out from Seaton Sluice to recover it. The life - boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was launched at 10.45, towing a small dinghy astern. The sea was smooth, the weather was calm, and it was one hour before low water. The life-boat arrived in Colleywell Bay twenty minutes later, and the honorary secretary from the shore guided the life-boat towards the body. The dinghy was used to pick up the body and the life-boat towed the dinghy to Blyth, arriving at the life- boat slipway at 12.5. The body was then handed over to the police..