DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local Whitby motor fishing coble, Jane and Ann, with a crew of four, was sheltering in Robin Hood’s Bay, Wyke, six miles south of Whitby, with her engine broken down. A strong north-westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at two o’clock and found the coble slowly making headway round the North Cheek of Robin Hood’s Bay. The weather was too bad for the coble to be taken in tow without damaging her, so the life-boat escorted her to Whitby. She came safely in, and the life-boat arrived back at her station at 3.45. - Rewards, £7 11s..