ESCORT FOR TANKER At 3.45 a.m. on I2th November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red rocket and searchlight had been seen from a vessel in the Crosby channel.

At four o'clock the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings in a near south-easterly gale and rough sea. The tide was flooding. The vessel, the tanker Helen, of Stavanger, freed herself from the revetment wall where she had grounded and was escorted by the life-boat to Waterloo Dock entrance.

The life-boat returned to her station at 5-45-.