FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the life-boat was escorting the cobles in about 3.45 she saw a parachute coming down about three miles north-east of Filey Brigg. She made for it. The aeroplane from which the parachutist had come had crashed on land at Osgodby, near Scarborough. Aeroplanes, high speed launches and a Scarborough coble, the Francis and Mary II, were also searching, and at 3.57 the Scarborough motor life-boat, Herbert Joy II, was called out. She had about twelve miles to go. But though the search went on for a long time, neither the aeroplanes nor the boats found the airman, and the Francis and Mary II broke down.

The Filey life-boat took her in tow. Meanwhile the Scarborough life-boat had returned to her station, where she arrived at 7.15.

There she learned that the Francis and Mary II had broken down, put out again, took over the tow from the Filey life-boat and arrived, with the coble in tow, at Scarborough at eight o’clock. The Filey life-boat arrived at her station at nine o’clock that night. - Rewards : Filey, £37 15s. 6d. ; Scarborough, £49 2s..