Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 3Gth of December, 1955, information was received from the crews of fishing boats coming in from sea that the wind was freshening and the weather worsening. There were doubts about the safety of the local cobles Rosemary II and Betty Sheader, which each had a crew of two, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest, on tem- porary duty at the station, was launched. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly breeze, and it was slack water. The life-boat soon came up with the Rosemary II, escorted her to the harbour, and then put to sea again to look for the Betty Sheader. She found her three miles north-east of Scarborough Castle, es- corted her in, and reached her station again at one o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, £9; rewards to the helpers on shore, £11 7s..