A severe gale having suddenly sprung up on the morning of the 31st October, all the fishing-cobles at once hastened back to port, but at 8.20 the Scarborough Coast- guard reported by telephone that a motor fishing-boat belonging to Scar- borough, with two young men in her, was still at sea. Preparations were at once made to launch the Life-boat Hollon the Third, and shortly after 9 A.M. it was reported that the motor boat was at the back of the Brigg. As soon as the boat got round the end of the Brigg the Life-boat and a coble took her in tow and succeeded in getting the boat and her two occupants into safe^. The sea at this time was exceed- ingly heavy and the escape of the two men was reported to have been little short of marvellous..