The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was the s.s. Deerwood, of London, with a crew of nineteen on board. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and squalls of hail. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 5.15 P.M.and found that the steamer had damaged her propeller. She was very near the sands, but holding her own with both anchors down and engines going full ahead. The master had already sent for a tug and the life-boat stood by in case the crew had to be taken off.

Later the tug arrived and took the Deerwood in tow for Grimsby, escorted by the life-boat. On passing the Bull Light-vessel the life-boat learned that the light-vessel had been driven from her moorings, but that her spare anchor was holding and she did not need the life-boat's help. The weather was so bad that the life-boat could not be rehoused, so she ran for Grimsby, arriving at 10.15 P.M. She returned to her station the following day. On the way she spoke the Deerwood, whose captain thanked the life-boatmen for their services.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards, £2 12s. 2d..