Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.10 p.m.

on 6th October, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser had been reported missing from Whitby harbour. On the morning ofyth October the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Wasperton and a Shackleton aircraft were searching for the missing boat. At 7 o'clock the coastguard reported that the aircraft had sighted the motor cruiser forty miles east of Whitby, that H.M.S. Wasperton was proceeding to that position and that he would tow the boat to Whitby approaches.

The Wasperton expected to arrive there at about 3 a.m. on the 8th October. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 3.30. It was two hours after low water. She came up with H.M.S.

Wasperton two miles north of Whitby.

The life-boat took the cabin cruiser in tow, having put the second coxswain aboard, and returned to Whitby. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.40 p.m..