Hartlepool, Co. Durham - At 7 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties three quarters of a mile north-east of Hartlepool.

The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 7.10 in a gale force westerly wind and a rough sea. It was two hours after high water. She found the casualty, with two men aboard, two to three miles north-east of Hartlepool breakwater. Her engine had failed and she was drifting.

The life-boat's second coxswain jumped aboard the cabin cruiser, and after a line was made fast the life-boat towed it into Hartlepool, reaching her station at 8.50 p.m..