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Stromness, Orkneys.—19th November, 1938. A steam trawler had stranded at Skea Skerries, Westray Firth, but got off and was beached at Rousay.—Rewards, £24 3*. Sd..

PETERHEAD.—At 5.30 P.M., on the llth September, The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat put off, during a gale from the W.S.W., to the assistance of the schooner Resolue, of Lossiemouth, bound from Shetland for Sunderland in ballast, which...

Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...

GORLESTON.—Two runaway apprentices, belonging to Ramsgate vessels, put to sea in the shrimp trawler Young Robert, of Yarmouth, intending to proceed to Grimsby, early on the morning of the 16th March. The weather was thick, with rain, the...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.3 on the after- noon of the 12th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Garland had broken down with engine trouble off Dumpton Gap. Further informiHon was asked for as the...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the 18th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat from the Swedish tanker Sira of Vaster- vik, with a crew of four, had not re- turned...

To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.

SIR,—Many years ago, in India, I was walking home from mess on a darkish, night; I was dressed in uniform, and had on boots, spurs, and straps. As I passed a good sized tank, or...