On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.

breeze was blowing, and a heavy sea was breaking for about three hundred yards outside the pier extension, and it was only by great good fortune that the boat had got out of harbour without mishap. She was in grave danger, riding just clear of broken water. The motor life-boat was run down the slip- way, but as there was not sufficient water she could not be launched, and was hauled back into her house. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine, which lies at moor- ings, was then called out. She set oft at 3.15 P.M. and picked up the boat abreast of the Spa grounds, to the north of Whitby. One of the youths was sick and helpless and the other two were rowing hard to keep the boat out of the broken water. The life-boat rescued them and took them back to harbour through heavy seas which filled her and drenched all on board.

She returned to her station at 4 P.M.-— Rewards, £12 11s. 6d..