HELIOGRAPH FLASHES At 8.2 p.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor-boat appeared to have broken down. Her crew of four were waving and flashing a heliograph.

The tide had been ebbing for two hours, and there was a gentle westerly breeze with a smooth sea. At 8.20 the life-boat Tynesider was launched. About 14 minutes later she reached the motor-boat Jarvis, to find that the boat's engine had broken down. She took the Jarvis with four people on board in tow to safe moorings and returned to her station at 9.15..