WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—About 8 A.M. on the 5th May a north-easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by rain and sleet and a rough sea, whereupon several fishing cobles, which had left the harbour earlier in the morning, attempted to return. The first two to do so, while crossing the bar were nearly swamped, and only got in with great difficulty, one of them being dashed against the end of the East Pier.

As the remaining boats were in peril and had still to make the harbour, the No. 1 Life-boat Robert and Mary Ellis launched and stood by them until out of danger, when she was returned to her house..