ANXIOUS PARENTS Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.35 a.m. on 2oth May, 1964, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the parents of two youths who had not returned from a fishing trip in an 18-foot motor boat were anxious about their sons' safety and at 2 a.m. the life-boat Sir James Knott was launched.

There was a light north-easterly wind, a smooth sea, and an ebbing tide. The lifeboat found the motor boat, a converted ship's boat, which had broken down. She was i \ miles east of Rex Hotel in Whitley Bay, and had three youths on board. The life-boat rescued them, towed their boat to Cullercoats and returned to her station at 3 a.m..