MONTROSE.—The morning of the 25th February was comparatively fine, with a moderate breeze blowing from S.S.W., and the fishing-boats went to sea. At about 10 o'clock the wind veered to S.S.E. and commenced to blow very strongly, and a heavy sea began to rise. Some of the boats returned and their crews reported that the weather was very bad outside and urged that the Life-boat should be sent to the bar, as there were still about twenty-five boats to come in, and some of them, being small, would run great risk.

The coxswain of the Life-boat telephoned to the lighthouse-keeper at Scurdyness as to the state of the bar, and having received a reply that the sea was becoming worse and that he considered it necessary that the Life-boat should go out, the Robert Henderson put off at 11 o'clock, proceeded to the bar, and remained there until 4 P.M., when the last boat got safely in.Many of the boats had narrow escapes through the heavy seas striking them, and one boat very nearly stranded on the Annat Bank, the tack of her foresail having given way in taking the bar. The Life-boat at once proceeded towards her, bnt her crew got sail again upon her and succeeded in entering the harbour..