Scarborough, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 22nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop, which was bound for Scarborough and was due to arrive at eight o'clock, had two stretcher cases on board and that the patients ought to be landed. The life-boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched at seven oclock in a calm sea. There were light northerly airs and dense fog. The tide was flooding. The life-boat met the De Hoop one mile east-south-east of the castle. She embarked the two sick men, the ship's doctor and a nurse and then landed them. Later she took the doctor and the nurse back to the ship. She finally reached her station at 10.45.

Rewards to the crew, £9 18s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 10s..