Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 19th of May, 1955, the fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy breaking swell at the harbour bar, and at 12.34 the No. 1 life-boat J. W.

Archer, on temporary duty at the station, was launched. She escorted in the fishing boat in a fresh north- north-west breeze and a flooding tide and reached her station again at 1.35.

—Rewards to the crew, £6; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £1 11s..