Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1952, the coxswain received a wireless mes- sage from the local fishing boat Pro- vider A that her engine had broken down and that she would need help to enter the harbour. At 11.51 the No.

1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a heavy ground swell, with a strong north-north-west wind blowing, and found the fishing boat drifting off Whitby. The life-boat towed her to the harbour and reached her station again at 1.55 the next morning.—Rewards, £8 17s. 6d..