JULY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 1 A.M. the coastguard telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, and the No. 1 motor lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 1.30 A.M. The weather was foggy, without wind, but there was a heavy swell. The lifeboat found, well up under the cliffs of the North Cheek, the minesweeper Lord Darling. Tide was about half ebb, and there was only just enough water for the life-boat, as the place was strewn with rocks. A ship’s boat, which was over the minesweeper’s side, had first to be moved, and then the life-boat got alongside and took off the whole crew, twenty-one in all. As the life-boat, was moving away her propellers picked up a rope and the lifeboat was pulled under the ship’s counter.

The minesweeper was rising and falling in the swell, and her counter crashed down on the life-boat’s rails bending them. Then the pull of the life-boat eventually broke the rope, and on one engine she got into Whitby harbour, where she landed the rescued men at 4.10 A.M. - Rewards, £9 8s..