The Story of a Whitby Rescue.

[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special correspondent at Cloughton.] Some day the National Life-boat Institution will benefit considerably through, the shipwreck of a Scottish doctor off the Yorkshire coast nearly 80 years ago.

"The doctor was Dr. Robert Wyllie, who practised in the district between Robin Hood's Bay and Cloughton (where his daughters are now living) for forty years.

The two daughters told me the story of how their father came to work here, and how he came to be loved by all sea- faring men for miles around.

" He was a ship's surgeon, and used to join the Whitby boats for .whaling expeditions to Greenland. Three times he had done the journey, leaving Mont- rose for Leith and Hull, and then taking the stage coach to Whitby—though once, when he missed this, he had to walk.

" He was a great lover of the sea, and could navigate the vessel as well as the captain. His handiness stood him in good stead later in life, as well as in Greenland, where he had some nerve- racking adventures, once having a tussle with a bear, and later with a walrus.

Once, when walking over the ice, he slipped down a crevasse, but had the presence of mind to shoot out his arms, which, extended on either side over the ice, held him until he could be rescued.

" It was a very wild night that he started for Greenland the fourth time. A gale was blowing, and the boat set out in the teeth of a snowstorm. It was tempting Providence to go out, and the inevitable happened. The vessel could not cross the bar, and became a wreck.

" The Whitby Life-boat set out, got the men who were clinging to the rigging, and brought them back to harbour.

" A local doctor invited my father to go as a guest to his house, and when, later, he was preparing to go home, the doctor said : ' You should take your shipwreck as a warning. Don't go out again. You have been three times.

.Why not settle here and help me ? ' " (That was how Dr. Wyllie came to live in Yorkshire, and eventually he begau to practise at Robin Hood's Bay.) " He did not himself leave anything for Life-boat work—he left a family of nine instead. But my brother, Dr. John Wyllie, of Hull, always said that if it hadn't been, for the work of Whitby Life-boatmen my father would not have been saved and we should not have existed. It is on his suggestion, there- fore, that the family estate, when we have finished with it, will go to the National Life-boat Institution.".