TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH BROKEN RUDDER Sunderland, Durham. At 3.12 on the afternoon of the 3rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a beach attendant at Seaburn had reported a boat burning red flares two miles north of Roker pier. At 3.40 the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched with the second coxswain in charge. There was a light south-south-west breeze, the sea was calm, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat made a search and found the fishing boat Nessie with a crew of four. Her rudder had broken off. The life-boat towed her to Sunderland south dock and arrived back at her station at 5.5..