MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

About 8.30 in the morning five small fishing cobles were expected to return. The tide was ebbing and there was a rough sea on the bar, making it very dangerous to cross. At 9.15 the No. 2 pulling lifeboat Jacob and Rachael Vallentine was launched as there was not enough water for the motor life-boat. A light north-north-westerly wind was blowing.

The life-boat was rowed down to the harbour bar and escorted three cobles into harbour.

She was then rowed out to sea near to the Rock Buoy and there met the other two cobles. She advised them to remain at sea with her until the tide flowed, as she had struck the ground when coming out of harbour.

They waited, and when there was water enough the life-boat escorted the two cobles in, and reached her station again at 12.30 that afternoon. - Rewards, £8 7s..