DECEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Five men of a salvage firm were at work on the motor fishing boat Proficient, of Lowestoft, which was under Admiralty control and which, a few days before, had gone ashore ahout 400 yards from the cliffs on Whitby west beach. A light E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and at 11.30 in the morning the salvage master asked the life-boat to rescue the men, as, with the tide rising, the swell was sweeping right over the deck of the Proficient, and she was rolling heavily. At 11.45 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched, and found the Proficient lying in broken water extending for about 100 yards seaward. The men on board her were by now up to their waists in water. The life-boat went alongside at once. and three of the salvage men jumped into her. Again the life-boat went alongside and the remaining two men were rescued. The life-boat brought them ashore and returned to her station at 12.30 P.M. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..