Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.58 a.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a small boat three miles north east of Whitby buoy was requesting assistance. At 11.10 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a strong northerly wind and a rough sea. It was four hours after high water, and very squally. The casualty proved to be the Panamanian motor vessel Taurus. A tug was summoned from Tees, and the lifeboat stood by until the tug took the casualty in tow. The life-boat returned to her station at 3.45 p.m..