SHAFT WAS BROKEN Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.35 p.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was flashing a light about one mile north-west of the harbour entrance.

The sea was moderate with a gentle to moderate southerly breeze. When the life-boat Mary Ann Hepivonh was launched at 8.48 it was i| hours after high water. The fishing vessel Ann Elizabeth with a crew of three was found north of the harbour with her propeller shaft broken. The life-boat towed her into Whitby, returning to her station at 9.20..