Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland.

At 1.40 p.m. on Monday, 1st February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Berwick Harbour Commissioners pilot boat went out to bring in the Dutch coaster Steady.

About a mile out a wave broke off the pilot boat's rudder but leaving it attached by the chains and bumping on the bottom of the boat. The temporary lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn on duty at the station was launched at 2.20 in a moderate north-north-east breeze and smooth sea. The tide was full. When the life-boat reached the casualty the coaster Steady had already taken off the pilot and one of the crew, leaving two other crew members on board. The pilot boat was drifting quickly south but the life-boat reached and took her in tow before she reached the broken water inshore. The life-boat towed the pilot boat back to Berwick harbour and returned to her station at 4.20..