HELP FOR ORPHANAGE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4.25 p.m. on 27th February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary's wife, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that four youths from a local orphanage were missing. At 5.25, on the return of the honorary secretary, it was decided to launch the life-boat in case the children might be trapped on the cliffs. There was a gentle southerly breeze with a smooth sea, and the tide was ebbing. The lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 5.30 and carried out a search close inshore but without success. She arrived back at her station at 7.30..