Flamborough, Yorkshire. —• On the evening of the 21st December, 1937, a steamer was seen ashore on the south side of Flamborough Head. A fresh, southerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell, and the night was very dark and foggy. The tide, which was at quarter ebb, and the swell made launching from the beach very difficult, but the No. 2 pulling and sailing life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald got away at 9.45 P.M. She dropped anchor and veered in to the steamer, which was the Beneficent, of Sunderland. Her master did not want any help, but the life-boat stood by until the ebb tide left the Beneficent dry. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.45 A.M.

The Beneficent eventually got off under her own power.—Rewards, £41 Os. 6d..