On the evening of 25 January 1936 the Icelandic trawler Andri with a crew of twenty five bound for Grimsby with fish ran ashore in fog and heavy rain at 'Kelder Steel' at Kettleness (three miles north of Whitby).  Runswick's RNLB The Always Ready and Whitby Lifeboat's No 2 RNLB Jacob and Rachal Vallentine were launched. Whitby's No 2 boat which was a 'Pulling & Sailing Lifeboat' was dispatched as it was known that the Andri was aground and the Rowing Lifeboat could maneuver more closely to the stranded vessel.

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The Runswick Lifeboat arrived on scene and found the Andri was in a bad position, in-shallow, surrounded by broken water, surrounded by rocks therefore they stood by until the arrival of the Whitby's rowing lifeboat which had been towed there by a Whitby fishing boat.

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The Whitby's RNLB Jacob and Rachel Vallentine went into the surf and found three men in a small boat in the lee of the Andri, they were taken on board the lifeboat. Eight more men were then rescued from the fishing boat itself; the coxswain told the Andri's master that he would return for the remaining when the tide flowed.

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The lifeboat then made for Whitby undertow by a motor fishing boat, leaving the Runswick lifeboat at anchor off the trawler. After putting the rescued men ashore at Whitby she returned to the trawler, still towed by the fishing boat. On arrival at Kettleness it was found that the remainder of the crew had been rescued by the Kettleness Board of Trade life-saving rocket apparatus team. The Runswick lifeboat returned to her station at 1.40am whilst the Whitby lifeboat returned home at 2am.