TOW FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 7.30 on the evening of the llth August, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat had broken down off Beadnell Point. A west-south-westerly gale was blowing with a very choppy sea. As no boats were afloat at Beadnell or North Sunderland, it was decided to launch the life-boat, and at 7.50 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched on the flooding tide. The fishing boat, which had been on passage from Amble to North Sunderland, was found a mile east of Beadnell with her engine broken down. The life-boat towed her to North Sunderland and then returned to her station, arriving at 9.10..