Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where, on Saturday August 25, the dedication took place. This was attended by Mrs Audrey Brown, Mr and Mrs Colin Brown and their young daughter who represented the Brown family, whose donation in memory of Mr G. A. Brown paid for the remainder of the lifeboat's cost apart from the righting equipment, which was funded by the local Scouts.

Mr P. Denham Christie, a vice-president of the RNLI, handed the lifeboat into the care of Cullercoats station branch and the service which followed was led by The Reverend Graham Revett, Vicar of St George's Church..