FEBRUARY 3 RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.35 A.M. a fisherman reported that two ships were being attacked by enemy aircraft. This was confirmed by the coastguard. A light breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 8.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched and, a mile to the east of Scarborough, met the trawler Rose of England. She had been bombed and machine-gunned, and one of the crew was slightly injured. The skipper asked for a pilot, and two of the life-boat’s crew were put on board. The life-boat then went to the cargo steamer Yewdale. She too had been attacked a mile from the shore. Her master had been killed by machine-gun fire, when in the wheel-house. Two of her crew were wounded, so seriously that they could not be transferred to the life-boat. The steamer asked for a pilot. A motor keel boat had just arrived, and on the instructions of the life-boat coxswain she put one of her crew on board the Yewdale to pilot her into harbour. Meanwhile an aeroplane had been dropping flares further out at sea, and the life-boat went to investigate, but found nothing. She returned to her station at 12 noon. - Rewards, £20 8s.