GRACE DARLING LIFE-BOAT TAKES FOOD TO LIGHTHOUSE North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 9th January, 1963, the local representative of Trinity House asked if the life-boat would take supplies to the Longstone lighthouse because the weather had been too bad for the Trinity House boat to put off. The relief was long overdue and the keepers had been living on corned beef and biscuits for some days. At 2.20 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched. There was a moderate eastnorth- east wind and a moderate sea, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat put provisions on the lighthouse and then returned to her station, arriving at 3.30..