MR. WILLIAM DRYDEN, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testimonial on parchment for the rescue on the 17th of July, 1958, of an elevenyear- old boy, who was struggling in the water in Whitby harbour. Mr. Dryden, who is a non-swimmer, jumped into the water, seized the boy and held his head above water. At the same time he clung to a mooring rope of a fishing boat and worked his way along it. A woman, who had given the alarm, scrambled down a ladder into the fishing boat and helped Mr. Dryden and the boy on board..