Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 12.45 P-m- on J4tn July, 1966, news was received, that the Dutch trawler Noorderkroon, of Scheveningen, had a mine on board. H.M.S. Belton had put ratings aboard to secure the mine. The honorary secretary agreed that the life-boat could be used to put the bomb and mine disposal party from Rosyth aboard the trawler. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 3 o'clock in a moderate northeasterly wind and a slight swell. It was three hours after high water. The lifeboat found the trawler six miles off the harbour and escorted her to a positionthree miles off the Tyne. The bomb and mine disposal party were embarked at North Shields and put aboard the trawler.

The master asked the coxswain to take off 11 men, leaving two of the crew, the mine party and two TV cameramen on board. The mine was exploded underwater at 9.56. The life-boat then went alongside the trawler and took off the mine party, together with the TV cameramen. The trawler crew were put back aboard their vessel which returned to the fishing grounds. The life-boat met the cameramen's small charter boat about two miles from North Shields, and took her in tow to North Shields fish quay. The Tynesider returned to her station at 11.30..