TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER DRIFTING ON TO ROCKS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 5.58 on the afternoon of the 7th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in need of help in Newbiggin Bay, and at 6.15 the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched. There was a moderate south-south-east breeze, the sea was choppy, and the tide was flooding.

The life-boat found the 25-foot cabin cruiser Medina, with a crew of two, off the Pig and Sow rocks, Blyth.

She was drifting quickly towards the rocks. The life-boat towed her to Blyth and then returned to her station, arriving at 8.15..