Blyth, Northumberland. At 11.15 p.m. on 24th January, 1966, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, the Kirsten Frank, had gone aground on the Sow and Pigs rocks.

The life-boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was launched at 12.10 a.m.

in a light air and a smooth sea. It was four and a half hours before high water. The life-boat went to the rocks, where the Kirsten Frank re-floated at 12.45 on the flooding tide and was escorted by the lifeboat into Blyth Harbour, arriving at 1.15..