ESCORT FOR PLEASURE BOAT VISITING ISLANDS North Sunderland, Northumberland.

About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1962, the weather began to grow worse, and by 3.45 the sea had become very rough. The wind was blowing from the north-east, and the tide was half ebb. The local fishermen had cancelled their trips with visitors to the Fame Islands, and as the local pleasure motor boat Mercury was still at sea with thirty-five passengers and crew aboard, it was decided to launch the life-boat Grace Darling at four o'clock. The Mercury was found near the Inner Fame and was escorted safely into harbour. The life-boat reached her station at 5.20..