Wick.

ON the afternoon of 29th August news was received at Wick of a vessel, found later to be the steamer Munin, of Bergen,Norway, which had gone ashore on the east side of North Ronaldshay, the northernmost island of the Orkneys, seventy-one miles away. The Stromness Motor Life-boat not being available as she was undergoing her annual survey, the Wick Motor Life-boat was launched at 4.30 P.M. A strong S.S.E.

breeze was blowing, the sea was rough and there was fog. At midnight the Life-boat arrived off Start Point in Sanday Island, and, owing to the extreme darkness, the Coxswain decided that he must have someone on board with local knowledge. He, therefore, put back to Stronsay, and there learnt that the vessel had refloated and had reached Kirkwall safely. The Life-boat, after refuelling, returned to Wick, arriving at four in the afternoon of the following day. She had been out for just under twenty-four hours and had covered 113 miles. This almost equals the service of the Stromness Life-boat, which, on 22nd September, 1922, rescued nine men from the trawler The Cornel, of Aberdeen.

On that occasion she was out for fourteen hours and travelled 114 miles. In recognition of the long and arduous nature of the service the Institution gave the Wick Coxswain and Crew additional monetary awards..