COASTER AGROUND NEAR HARBOUR ENTRANCE Amble, Northumberland. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th February, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster had run aground at the harbour entrance.

The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 9.15 in a rough sea. There was a strong south-easterly breeze blowing, and it was one hour after low water. The life-boat reached the coaster Northgate and helped to take ropes from the ship to the quayside. She reached her moorings at 11.30. The master of the Northgate made a gift to the life-boat crew..