FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Blyth, Northumberland. At 10.51 on the night of the 20th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel had fired a distress signal one mile east of St. Mary's Island. At 11.1 the lifeboat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was launched in a light southwesterly breeze and a calm sea. It was one hour before low water. The lifeboat found the motor fishing vessel King Fisher of Blyth with her engine broken down. The fishing vessel, which had a crew of two, was taken in tow to Blyth and was moored in the south harbour at 12.15. As it was low water the life-boat was not re-housed until 6.30..