Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early afternoon of the 5th of October, 1949, seventeen geological students from Aberdeen University were cut off by the tide off Black Nab. Three of them scrambled through deep water and breakers for help, and reached the shore about one o 'clock. At 1.15, the harbour pulling life-boat Robert and Ellen Rob- son was towed to the position by a local fishing boat. The life-boat got close in-shore and found the fourteen remaining students clinging to the cliffs, with two men of the coastguard life-saving crew who had been lowered down to them. She took them all on board, landed them, and arrived back at her station at 3 o'clock. The stu- dents expressed their thanks and made a gift.—Rewards, £30 16s. Qd..