The fishing fleet put to sea early on the morning of the 7th April. Later the sea got up, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 11.25 A.M., to the help of three small motor cobles which had not returned.

The wind was moderate, from the north, but there was a rough, broken sea at the harbour entrance and for some distance outside. The life-boat escorted into harbour the Brethren and the Gratitude, and then went to Whitby Rock Buoy, where the Curlew was flying a flag of distress. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her and her crew safely in, and arrived back at her station at 1.40 P.M.—Rewards, £8 5s. 6d..