Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1952, the life-boat head launcher reported that the seas were very heavy on the harbour bar, making the conditions bad for returning fishing cobles. Four cobles were at sea, and the No. 2 pulling life-boat Robert and Ellen Robson was launched at once, in a strong north-north-east wind. She stood by the bar, escorted in the cobles Floral Queen, Silver Line, Little Lady, and Margaret, and reached her station again at 1.30 that afternoon.—Re- wards, £10 3,9..