Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the collier Effra had sighted a small rowing boat with two men on board which needed help four miles north-east-by-north of the castle. The life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a choppy sea with a strong westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. She found the boat in tow of the collier. Her crew were very exhausted, and they were taken on board the life-boat, which reached herstation with the rowing boat in tow at 3.50. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £6 13s..