WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 1.25 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore at Kettleness. A light northerly wind was blowing, the weather was fine and the sea was smooth. As the tide was too low for the motor life-boat to be launched, the coastguard asked that a coble should be sent out. The coxswain asked if the Runswick life-boat could not go, and the coastguard said that there also, owing to the very low tide, there might be difficulties in launching.

At two in the morning Coxswain Murfield and three other men put off in the motor fishing coble Margaret. They arrived at Kettleness to find that the Runswick lifeboat was already alongside the vessel, which was the steam trawler Cynthia, of Grimsby, and that she had run out a kedge anchor for her. The coble arrived back at 5.30. - Rewards, £5, and 10s. for fuel used. (See Runswick, “Accounts of Services by Lifeboats,” page 27.).