PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

A fresh wind was blowing from east-north-east, the sea was rough and the tide was three-quarters ebb. The lifeboat found the Venus //, which had a crew of six, 3^ miles north-west of the harbour, took her in tow and returned to Whitby at 10.15..