At 2 P.M.

on the 7th March the schooner Emma Louise, of Wick, bound to the Tyne with a cargo of paving stones, but then lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, showed signals of distress, the crew fear- ing she would drive on to the rocks in the heavy easterly gale and broken sea.

The crew of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 3 were assembled—at the same time the Rocket Brigade came upon the scene. They fired a rocket and estab- lished communication with the vessel.

One of the crew was rescued by this means but with difficulty; the re- mainder therefore declined to come ashore by that method. After waiting some time, the -weather not improving, the Life-boat was launched and the four remaining men rescued..