Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing boat Provider left harbour at 5 A.M. on the 10th February.

Conditions were bad, and at eight o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and the sea was making rapidly.

The motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched, and moored at the quayside until the Provider was seen approaching. At 1.10 P.M. she put out, met the Provider about a mile and a half out, and escorted her through the heavy seas safely into harbour. She returned to her station at 3 P.M.—Rewards, £8 5s. 6d..