TOW FOR RESERVE LIFE-BOAT Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 9th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Howard D., which was on passage from Bridlington to Boulmer, had engine trouble off Marske and needed the help of a motor mechanic. The Redcar lifeboat's motor mechanic put out with a helper in his own private boat, the Easter Mom. They found that the skew gears on the water and the pump oil had been damaged and could not be repaired immediately, and they returned ashore to inform the honorary secretary.

The life-boat City of Leeds was launched at 4.45 in a gentle southwesterly breeze and a smooth sea. It was three and a quarter hours before high water. The life-boat took the Howard D. in tow to Hartlepool and reached her station at 8.20..