Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1953, word was received by the coxswain that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The local fishing boat Lead Us was still at sea, and at 2.40 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a moderate north-north-west gale with a heavy swell. She met the Lead Us at the harbour entrance, escorted her in, and arrived back at her station at 3.20.— Rewards, £7 2s. 6d..