BIyth, Northumberland - At 11.45 a.m. on 24th March, 1968, thecoastguard told the honorary secretary that a coble had fired distress flares in Cambois bay about one mile north of the harbour mouth.

The life-boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was launched at 12.12 p.m. in a south by south westerly wind of gale force, a moderate sea and an ebbing tide. The lifeboat found the local fishing coble Border Queen with a crew of two one mile north of the lighthouse. Her propeller shaft was defective and she was taken in tow to Blyth. The lifeboat returned to her station at one o'clock..