Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, was lying off Whitby in need of a pilot. As the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put out, the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth em- barked a pilot and was launched at 1.15. A strong east-south-east gale was blowing, with a rough sea. As the life-boat was launching a message came from the coastguard that a motor fishing boat was in distress five miles north-east of Robin Hood's Bay. The life-boat put the pilot aboard the Geziena then made for the fishing boat, and found the Courage, of Scar- borough, with a crew of five, making very heavy weather. She gave first aid to one of the men, who had been injured, handed out biscuits and rum to them all, and escorted the Courage to Whitby. She then returned to the Geziena, escorted her into harbour and reached her station again at 4.45.— Rewards, £12 17s..