EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 8.12 on the evening of the 23rd June, 1963, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident at Whitley Bay had reported red flares about three miles east of High Point Hotel, Whitley Bay. Eight minutes later the life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolt on was launched with the second coxswain in command. She made for the position given in a light westerly wind, a slight sea and an ebbing tide and found the fishing boat Linda Anne of North Shields broken down. The two men on board were exhausted and had blistered their hands badly trying to row against the tide. The life-boat took the boat in tow and returned to Cullercoats, arriving at 9.10..