WHITBY'S DANGEROUS BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 5.30 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, seven fishing boats put to sea in moderate weather. By nine o'clock a strong northerly wind was blowing, the sea was rough, and the river was running very strongly out of the harbour, making the bar dangerous.

The motor life-boat Mary Ann Hep- •worth was launched at 10.15, met the open coble Silver Line two miles to the eastward and escorted her into harbour, and met and escorted in five other boats at intervals. She searched for the last boat for some time, but it had run for Scarborough She finally returned to her station at three o'clock.

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