FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early in the morning of February 19th, 1947, two fishing boats, the Pilot Me and the Gem, put to sea in moderate weather. Later the sea became heavy, making it very dangerous for boats to enter the har- bour, and the motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 12.45 in the afternoon, in charge of the second cox- swain. She met the Gem one and a half miles north of Whitby, escorted her into harbour, went out again, found the Pilot Me .two miles off and escorted her in, arriving back at 2.45 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £8 4s..