RESERVE LIFE-BOAT Humber, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle had broken down in a slight sea and gentle southeasterly wind five miles north of Spurn Point. At 1.35 the life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched and the reserve life-boat was soon found about two miles east of Withernsea. The Cuttle was towed to the life-boat station by 5.21..