THREE RESCUED Seaham, Co. Durham. At 6.42 p.m.

on 29th July, 1965, three men were stranded on North pier, unable to get back because of the waves breaking over the pier. At 7.19 the life-boat The Will and Fanny Kirby was launched in a northerly wind of near gale force and a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. The lifeboat went alongside the pier and by 7.25 the three men had jumped safely aboard.

The men were put ashore and the lifeboat returned to station some ten minutes later..