GUIDING LIGHT GUIDED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 5.10 p.m. on I5th October, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had been lying at anchor off Newbiggin Point for some time. On investigation it was noticed that the coble was flashing a light. She appeared to be dragging her anchor and drifting slowly towards the rocks. The life-boat Richard Ashley was launched at 5.30 in a gentle south-easterly breeze and moderate sea.

It was two hours after high water. The life-boat found the coble Guiding Light, of Blyth, with two people on board, half a mile east of Newbiggin Point. The two people managed to restart the engine, which had failed, as the life-boat approached. The life-boat escorted the coble to Blyth Pier and returned to her station at 6.35..