The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, 1939, the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 2.45 A.M.

She found that the steam trawler Cape Palliser, of Hull, with a crew of eighteen, had gone aground while returning to Hull from Bear Island.

The life-boat coxswain advised the Cape Palliser and stood by until she had been refloated by a tug and was out of danger. She returned to her station at 9.30 A.M.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards, 18s..