In answer to signals of distress, and a message from the Lighthouse, the. Life-boat Helen Smitten was launched shortly after 6 P.M. on the 26th March. The Ketch Colonel Moir, in a dismasted state, was found drifting helplessly about three miles from St. Abbs, and the Life-boat stood by her until a motor fishing-boat arrived and took the dis- abled vessel in tow. There were two men in the ketch at the time of the accident and she was laden with pota- toes from the Moray Firth..