GIRL RESCUED BY SPEED BOAT North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize off Newton Link house. A helicopter took off at the coastguard's request, and at 4.45 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched.

There was a light southerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was one hour after low water. While the life-boat was making for the position the district officer of H.M. Coastguard also put out in a speed boat with the owner of the boat and a doctor on board. The speed boat soon caught up with the life-boat, and the life-boat's coxswain and second coxswain boarded her and the boat raced to the position. After a search the speed boat's crew found the girl in the water with a life-jacket on. They rescued her, and after a further search they found a young man. His lifejacket had not been properly adjusted and his head was under the water. He was unconscious when he was hauled aboard, and the doctor applied artificial respiration, but the young man did not recover. Meanwhile the life-boat had been searching for a third member of the dinghy's crew, who had not been wearing a life-jacket, but he was not found. The coxswain and the second coxswain, who had helped the doctor in trying to revive the young man who had been found, rejoined the life-boat, and the search was continued in conjunction with the helicopter until darkness. Nothing was found and the life-boat returned to her station with the dinghy, arriving at ten o'clock..