FEBRUARY 15TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 6.45 A.M . the coastguard reported a vessel in distress at Robin Hood’s Bay, and at 7.30 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

A light S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the S.S. Paris, of London, hard aground off Stoupe Beck, with a cargo of coal for London and a crew of twenty-two. She had been in collision some hours earlier and had been run aground. She was damaged below the water line and her fore deck was awash. The lifeboat rescued seventeen of the crew, and landed them at Whitby at 10 A.M. She put out again at 10.20 taking with her Lloyd’s agent. The captain eventually decided to abandon the Paris, and the life-boat rescued him and the remaining five members of his crew, landing them at Whitby at 3.45 P.M.

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