Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.58 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the coaster Humber- gate was aground half a mile south of Easington. The life-boat City of Brad- ford HI was launched at 5.5. She closed the coaster at 6.10, when a line was fired across her. A tow rope was passed, but the life-boat could not manage to refloat the coaster. An hour later a tug arrived, and the life-boat helped to pass a towing hawser. This attempt also failed, and as it was now after high water the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.45. At four o'clock the life-boat left her moor- ings again. She reached the Humbergate an hour later. A further line was fired across the vessel and again connected to the tug, but this attempt also failed, and the life-boat returned once more to her station at eight o'clock. Later that evening the master of the Humbergate asked for the life-boat to stand by again on the following morning, when a further attempt would be made to refloat the vessel. The life-boat put out at four o'clock on the morning of the 23rd of October and reached the coaster at five o'clock. As the tug could not come close enough to connect a tow rope to the Humbergate, the life-boat again passed the hawser, but this attempt to refloat the vessel also failed, and the life-boat returned to her station at 7.30. The Humbergate was eventually refloated by a tug at 7.30 on the evening of the 24th of October and was towed to Grimsby..