POLISH TRAWLERS GUIDED TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

On the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht My Lady of Hartlepool, which had a crew of five, grounded on a sandbank just inside the entrance to the harbour at Berwickupon- Tweed. The crew were safe, but at 9.45 in the evening a local boat put off, with the owner and his son aboard, to try to refloat her. The weather grew worse, and a rope fouled the My Lady's propeller. She returned to the dock, but at 10.50 her mooring ropes parted and she drifted rapidly seawards. It was known that her engine was faulty, and at 10.56 therefore the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched. There was a west-south-west gale and a moderate sea and the tide was flooding.

By the time the life-boat reached her the yacht's engine had been started, and she was able to return to the dock under her own power. The life-boat then saw two Polish trawlers trying to reach the harbour. She guided them in and arrived back at her station at 12.30..