FEBRUARY 2 3RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.45 in the evening the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, which had been unable to enter Whitby harbour owing to heavy seas, was making for Scarborough to shelter, and at 6.5 the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched. A north-by-west gale was blowing, with heavy seas and snow. Three miles north-northeast of Castle Hill the life-boat found the Whitby fishing boat Provider. One of her crew had been lost overboard. The life-boat gave her the course to steer and escorted her safely through the heavy seas into harbour.

She arrived back at her station at 7.20.- Rewards, £43 15s..