Whit by, Yorkshire.—About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 13th of March, 1950, the No. 1 life-boat crew assembled as three fishing vessels were approaching the harbour in bad weather. At 10.50 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a rough sea with a strong northerly breeze. She first came up with the Success, which was making heavy weather, and escorted her in.

Then she saw the Provider A and accom- panied her to the harbour. Finally she met the Pilot Me II and escorted her in across the bar. She arrived back at her station at 1.16 in the afternoon.

—Rewards, £11 Os. 6d..