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OCTOBER 2 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before noon the sea became heavy, with an easterly wind blowing.

A number of fishing boats were making for harbour and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon. She was in charge of the second-coxswain, as the coxswain was at sea, fishing. She made a number of trips, and escorted in seven open motor boats and three keel boats, life-belts being handed to all the men in the open boats before they were brought in. The lifeboat returned to her station at 2.50 P.M.- Rewards, £17 7s. 6d..