BLOWN ON TO REEF Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 4.18 p.m.

on 3rd May, 1964, the South Gare lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with a crew of two had been blown on to a slag reef about a quarter of a mile offshore and at 4.35 the life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season was launched. A moderate wind was blowing from the west-south-west, there was a slight sea and the tide was two hours flood. The life-boat made for the reef and grounded 20 yards from the small boat whose outboard motor had broken down.

A girl was in the boat and her male companion was in the sea holding on to the craft to prevent her from being blown seawards. The boat drifted to the lifeboat, which rescued the two people and towed the boat to Teesmouth by 5.50..