Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board and that she needed a pilot. Her position was reported to be one mile south of Scarborough har- bour. The coxswain, the second coxs- wain and the coxswain's father put out in a motor coble to meet the dredger, but they could not find her and re- turned to harbour. The St. Giles was apparently uncertain of her position, and at 9.40 the life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a calm sea with a gentle north-by-easterly breeze blowing and a flood tide. Dense fog hampered the search, but the life-boat eventually found the vessel two miles south-south-east of the Filey Bell buoy.

The second coxswain and another member of the life-boat crew boarded her, and the second coxswain piloted her to Scarborough roads while the life-boat returned to harbour to bring a doctor to the St. Giles. After the injured man had been given medical treatment he was transferred to the life- boat and landed. The dredger was eventually piloted into harbour, and the life-boat reached her station at 7.45.

Rewards to the crew, £20 13s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £7 13s..