Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1954, the weather worsened rapidly, and the crew of the motor fishing vessel Progress, when she returned to the harbour, said conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat- men assembled at eleven o'clock as five fishing boats were still at sea, and when they were sighted at 1.30, the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at once. There was a heavy swell, a moderate west-north- west breeze was blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat escorted the boats in and arrived back at her station at four o'clock.—Rewards, £11 Os. 6d..