FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was breaking heavily across the harbour entrance, making it dangerous, and the motor life- boat Mary Ann Hepri'orth was launched.

She met the Provider one and a half miles to the north and escorted her in.

About an hour later she put out again, this time in a snowstorm, found the Galilee near the Rock Buoy, and escorted her in. She waited then for news of the third boat, the Pilot Me, and when she learnt that she was coming home went out for the third time, met her two and a half miles north of Whitby, and came into harbour with her at 3.0 in the afternoon.—Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..