Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.10 a.m. on i8th March, 1966, with the weather deteriorating and the local fishing fleet at sea, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepwonh was launched at 9.30 in a north westerly gale, rough sea and flooding tide. She escorted four keel boats over the harbour bar, but the weather improved and, as the services of the life-boat were then no longer needed, she returned to her station..