SunderJand, Co. Durham - At 2.31 p.m. on 4th July, 1969, the coastguard told the second coxswain that a fishing boat was flying distress signals about two and a half miles off Sunderland. The life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers was launched at 2.55 in a fresh south westerly wind with a choppy sea.

The tide was flooding. She found the coble Homeland, with a crew of two on board, with a battery failure and took her in tow to Sunderland. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.20..