Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the morning of the 13th of November, 1955. the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel burning white flares could be seen two miles to the east- ward. At 3.1 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepzvorth was launched. The sea was calm, there was a light north- easterly breeze, and it was high water.

The life-boat made a search and came up with the trawler Erick Honnecker, of Rostock, standing into danger in Whitby Roads. She had two sick men on board and needed a pilot. One of the life-boat crew boarded her and took her into the harbour, escorted by the life-boat, which reached her station again at 4.40.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16.9..