Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.58 on the morning of the 17th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that the S.S.

Durward, of Grangemouth, which had a crew of eleven, was leaking and had a list on the south side of Robin Hood's Bay. At 8.2 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Ilepworth was launched in a calm sea, with a moderate west- south-west breeze blowing. She found the steamer at anchor, and the master asked the life-boat crew to go along- side and help spread a tarpaulin over a split plate. The coxswain then advised him to make for Scarborough, and the life-boat escorted her to that harbour, reaching her station again at 5.15.—Rewards, £25 2s..