RESCUE BY LIFE-BOAT AND CANOES Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1963, a boy called at the second coxswain's house to inform him that a speed boat had capsized outside Cullercoats Bay.

The life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton was launched at 1.25 in a light breeze and a calm sea. It was one hour after high water. The life-boat reached the position and found that two boys in a canoe had picked up a man who had been thrown into the water when the cabin cruiser Roselen capsized. They took him ashore straddled on the bows of the canoe. A third boy in another canoe rescued a boy and brought him ashore. The life-boat rescued another man and then towed the upturned cabin cruiser to Cullercoats beach. The lifeboat reached her station at two o'clock.

It was later learnt that the Roselen had struck either a rock or a piece of wood.

Her bottom was holed and the cabin cruiser overturned, throwing her owner, his son, and his daughter's fiance into the sea. The man and his son were taken to hospital for examination. The cabin cruiser's owner later made a donation to the branch funds. The three boys in the two canoes were sent letters of appreciation by the Institution..