Cromer'sTyne was also involved in this service on 29 August, with the station's D class inflatable, when three divers were rescued after getting into difficulties.

Two men and a woman from a university diving club had become separated from their surface buoy when a line broke, and their colleagues raised the alarm.

A Wessex helicopter from RAF Coltishall sighted the divers as the two lifeboats searched the area.

The divers were taken aboard the Tyne Ruby and Arthur Reed II exhausted but unhurt.

The divers, between the lifeboats, are pictured just before being taken aboard Ruby and Arthur Reed II.

(Photo courtesy Fit Lt Jim Bellingall RAF Coltishall).