Whitby, Yorkshire— At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message re- ceived by wireless that the motor vessel Arbroath, of Dundee, had been in col- lision with the S.S. Aina Maria Nur- minen, of Finland, in a dense fog and that she was sinking. The No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 4.15 in a light south-easterly breeze with a smooth sea, and found the ships five miles east by north of the harbour.

The Arbroath had been badly holed and her crew of eleven had been taken off by the Aina Maria Nurminen. The latter's captain asked for a pilot, and.

the second coxswain went aboard. The steamer then took the Arbroath in tow and, led by the life-boat, made for Whitby. Later, the captain of the Arbroath wanted to return to his ship and the life-boat put him and his crew aboard her. About a mile from the shore three local fishing vessels took over the tow and beached the Arbroath near the piers. The life-boat remained in attendance, and at midnight five fishing vessels refloated the Arbroath and towed her into the harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.45 the next morning.—Property sal- vage case..