DECEMBER 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

A crew from Whitby had gone to Bridlington to fetch the motor fishing boat Gem. As the seas were heavy the life-boat coxswain kept a look-out for her. At 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel, believed to be the Gem, two miles to the east. Seas were then breaking very heavily, both inside and outside the harbour entrance, and a north-easterly wind was blowing, with showers of sleet. At 6.55 the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched to await the arrival of the Gem, and escorted her into harbour. She got in safely, but had a very bad passage. The life-boat was back at her station again at eight o’clock. - Rewards, £15 18s. 6d..