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Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while local fishing cobles were at sea, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched in a flooding tide with the bowman in charge. The sea was very rough, and a wind of hurricane force was blowing from the east-north- east. The life-boat escorted eleven cobles to the shore and reached her station again at four o'clock.—Re- wards, £20 7s. Qd..