Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.55 p.m. on 8th February, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea on the harbour bar was becoming very bad and that two local motor fishing vessels, Lead Us and Ocean Venture, were still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 2.20 in an east by north gale force wind and a very rough sea, two and a half hours after low water.

The life-boat stood by at the harbour bar until it had been safely negotiated by both vessels, and returned to her station at 3.10 p.m..