GALE BLOWING At 10.10 a.m. on 29th March, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea was becoming dangerous on the harbour bar, and at 10.13 tne life* boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

A gale was blowing from the north west, the sea was very rough and the tide was flooding. The life-boat escorted three local fishing boats over the bar, and returned to her station at 2.57 p.m..