Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of January, 1949, the local fishing boat Pilot Me II was at sea.

The wind increased rapidly until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a heavy sea breaking on the harbour bar, and at 9.15 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

She found the fishing boat three miles to the north-north-east, escorted her into harbour, and arrived back at her station at 10 o'clock.-—-Rewards, £8 2s. 6d..