North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 7.56 a.m. on 28th July, 1966, the IRB seemed to have broken down on a service call to the tanker Ross Cleveland.

The life-boat Grace Darling was launched at 8 o'clock in a light west-south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat proceeded to the IRB and took her in tow, arriving back at her station at 8.30..