JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At 9.30 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched, manned by a scratch crew, with the second coxswain of the No. 2 pulling life-boat in charge. The regular members of the crew were at sea in the fishing boats. Some of the boats had a bad time, but by 2 P.M. all the boats, fourteen in number, had reached safety escorted by the life-boat.- Rewards, £7 6s. 6d.