Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat told the second coxswain that the weather had made conditions on the outer harbour bar verv dangerous and that the local fishing boat Lead Us was still at sea with a crew of five. At 2.10 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hep- u-orih was launched and stood by the bar in a rough sea. There was a fresh west-north-west wind, and the tide was flooding. The Lead Us arrived about three o'clock, and the life-boat escorted her in, reaching her station again at 3.45.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..