At about 6 A.M.

on the 30th December it was reported that a vessel had stranded on the Whitby Rocks. Coxswain Langlands at once summoned his crew and pro- ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the s.s. Peveril, of Leith, bound from that port to Caen, with a cargo of coal.

The vessel was hard aground, and the Life-boat crew were engaged to refloat her. Part of the cargo was jettisoned and anchors were run out, by means of which she was eventually hove off the ' rocks..