TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE BREAKDOWN Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had fired a red flare a mile and a half east of Berwick pier. The life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched at 3.30 in a gentle westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was one hour after high water. The life-boat found the local fishing boat Alert with three men on board. Her engine had broken down, and the life-boat took her in tow, reaching her station at 4.30..