Whitby, Yorkshire - At 2.46 p.m.

on 9th February, 1970, it was learnt that four children were cut off by the tide between Sandsend Ness and Keldersteel point. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 3 o'clock in a fresh westerly wind with a slight sea. The tide was flooding. At 3.20 the life-boat stood off at the foot of the cliffs.

The children were in a position inaccessible to a rescue party on the cliff top. A small boat, which had been towed by the life-boat, went ashore and took off two children at a time and transferred them to the life-boat. They were landed at Whitby, and the life-boat returned to her station at 4.10. A donation was made to the Institution's funds and a gift to the crew..