Tynemouth, Northumberland - At five o'clock in the morning on 21st December, 1969, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Progress, with two men aboard, had been drifting all night off the harbour. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 5.30 in a southerly gale force wind with a slight sea. It was two and a quarter hours after high water. At 6.40 the life-boat came up with the Progress, with a crew of two, anchored east of Blyth piers, and took her in tow to a safe mooring at North Shields. The life-boat returned to her station at 9.30..