FOUR YOUNG MEN RESCUED FROM ROCKS Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 7th July, 1962, the coastguard told the second coxswain of a police report from Seaton Carew that four young men had been cut off by the tide on Longscar Rocks. At 2.55 the lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched with the second coxswain in command. There was a light south-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was low water, and a small boat was taken as the life-boat would not be able to go inshore. The small boat reached the position, and the four young men were taken on board the life-boat.

The young men had left their own boat to climb the rocks but had been unable to board her again. The life-boat took their boat in tow and reached her station at 4.20..