When the Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season was out on exercise on 25th August, they were signalled by a fishing coble.

When they went alongside they found that she had a trawl warp round her propeller. The two swimmers carried by the life-boat, Mr. Peter- Race and Mr. R. Copeman, junior, went into the water and cut the rope free. Then the life-boat went on with the exercise and the coble continued to trawl..