FOUR YOUTHS GET ASHORE UNAIDED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At twenty minutes past two on the afternoon of Sunday the 22nd September, 1963, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a 22-foot sptiedboat with four youths on board was reported by the police to be rapidly sinking off Seaton Carew. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at 2.30 under command of the bowman, as the coxswain was on a naval exercise and the second coxswain at sea fishing.

When the life-boat reached the scene of the casualty it was found that the four youths had managed to get ashore unaided and the boat was stranded near the beach. The life-boat took the speedboat in tow and brought it into Hartlepool.

The life-boat was rehoused at 5.25 p.m. There had been a slight sea with a light breeze from the east-southeast..