Runswick, Yorkshire - At 2.30 p.m.

on 28th June, 1967, a rowing boat with a broken oar was seen being swept out to sea off Staithes. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 2.45 in a strong south westerly breeze and a choppy sea.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat came up with the rowing boat Mandy which had shipped a considerable amount of water two miles off Staithes. The four people on board were embarked and after a member of the life-boat crew had been put on board the rowing boat to bale her out she was taken in tow to Port Mulgrove.

The life-boat returned to her station at 4.45..