TUG TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

At 2.24 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about six miles east of Berwick, and at 2.50 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched. There was a light northeasterly breeze and a moderate sea, and it was high water. The life-boat made a search in snow showers and found the local tug T.I.D. 66, with a crew of four, had broken down three miles to the eastward.

She had left Berwick the afternoon before, but her engines had failed off St. Abbs Head and she had drifted southwards. She was at anchor. The anchor was weighed by hand-winch, and the life-boat towed the tug to Berwick harbour, reaching her station at 5.50..