Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.50 a.m. on 13th November, 1965, conditions had become dangerous at the harbour bar and the fishing coble William and Martha was still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9 o'clock in a moderate east-south-east breeze and a rough sea. It was three hours to low water.

The life-boat found the coble four miles north-west of the harbour and escorted it into harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.36 a.m..