Whitby, Yorkshire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1959, the coxswain, who had just returned from fishing in his motor boat, learnt that the local coble Remembrance was still at sea. As the sea on the bar might be dangerous for such a small boat, it was decided to launch the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, which put out at 9.10. There was a fresh north-north-easterly wind and a flood tide. The life-boat met the coble two miles north of Whitby, and the coxswain advised her crew of three to wear life-belts. The life-boat escort- ed the coble to harbour, oil being used on the breaking seas at the approach to the harbour entrance. The life-boat reached her station at 10.25, Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..