FIVE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED IN GALE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 26th October, 1962, it was decided to launch the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth to stand by local fishing vessels as they entered the harbour, and at 12.55 she put off in a northerly gale, a very rough sea and a flooding tide. The life-boat escorted in five fishing vessels, the last of which reached the harbour about 3.30, and arrived back at her station at 3.40..