CRUISER AND CREW OF SIX TOWED TO SAFETY Boulmer, Northumberland. At two minutes past three on the afternoon of Monday the 8th of July, 1963, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down and required assistance five miles east-north-east of Highton Stile. There was a light westerly wind and a slight sea. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 3.18 on the flood tide. She proceeded to the position given and came up with the cabin cruiser Renown, of Tynemouth, with a crew of six, at 4.33. The life-boat towed the Renown into Boulmer harbour, arriving back at her station at 6.45..