BOAT DRIFTING Amble, Northumberland. At 8.40 p.m. on 8th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with two men on board was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Millie Walton put to sea at nine o'clock with the second coxswain in command in a north-westerly wind of near gale force.

The sea was rough and it was an hourand- a-half before high water. As the life-boat was proceeding through Coquet roads, a helicopter radioed that the boat had been found one mile east of Hauxley buoy and that the two men had been rescued. The life-boat took the boat in tow and reached her station at 10 p.m..