UNDER the title Men of the Storm, Mr.

H.'E. Whittaker, of Bridlington, has written the history of the Bridlington life-boat station. Mr. Whittaker has also produced and published the book himself and is generously giving all the proceeds to the Bridlington Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Its price is one shilling.

Mr. Whittaker has very graphically told the story of the station and its,.

many rescues from its first life-boat, - built by Henry Greathead, before the Institution was founded, till the present day, and there is a chapter on the great gale of 1871, still freshly remembered in Bridlington, when twenty vessels went ashore in the bay and over fifty men lost their lives. There are a dozen illustrations, three from paintings of the great gale and the rest from photographs of coxswains and life-boats..