Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as the yacht had damaged her propeller.

The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 7.30 in a fresh west-southwesterly breeze and a slight swell.

Visibility was poor. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat found the yacht Blue Peter, which had been swept between the pier and the pier extension on to the Scaur east of Whitby pier, after losing some of her rigging.

A woman was taken off the Blue Peter by the life-boat which then towed the vessel off the bank, first having put a member of the life-boat crew aboard the yacht to assist in refloating her. The lifeboat towed the Blue Peter into harbour, in spite of difficult tidal conditions, and was back at her station at 7.57 p.m..