Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was burning flares north-north-east of Kettleness.

At 1.19 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Heptuorth was launched. The sea was calm, and a moderate breeze was blow- ing from the south-west. The life- boat made a search in an ebbing tide and found the local motor fishing vessel Venus, with a crew of five, three quarters of a mile north-north-east of Kettleness Point. She was leaking badly and had four feet of water in her forward compartments. The life- boat towed her to Whitby at once and beached her, arriving at 2.10.—Re- wards, £8 15s..