On the 17th February the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me put out at about 8 A.M. to fish off Marske. During the day the sea got up and increased considerably with the flood tide. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with showers of snow.

Some anxiety was felt for the safety of the boat and the coxswain telephoned to the honorary secretary of the life- boat station at Staithes to ask if the Pilot Me had been seen. He replied that she was then off Staithes, going south, so the Whitby motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 5.10 P.M., and put out to meet her.

The coxswain warned her skipper that the sea was breaking heavily outside the harbour entrance, and the life-boat then escorted the fishing boat safely into harbour. She arrived back at her station at 6.30 P.M.—Rewards, £16 7s..