AT the same time that the Aberdeen Motor Life-boat was on her way north from Cowes, up the East Coast, a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat was en- gaged on an equally noteworthy journey down the West Coast of Scotland. This was the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Anne Miles, an open boat of the Watson type, 43 feet long, which for the past 21 years has been stationed at Longhope in the Orkneys. At the beginning of September last she was replaced by a Motor Life-boat, and it was decided to station her at Howth, near Dublin, until the Motor Life-boat for that station is ready, replacing there a smaller Life- boat of the self-righting type.

She left Longhope at 10.20 on the morning of 24th October •with a crew of four men, and made lor Cape Wrath with a strong following wind and sea, passing that point at one in the morning of the next day. The wind had risen, and through the night and the next day she ran before the gale with a heavy following sea, at times shipping heavy seas, and doing about eight knots. The pier at Kyle of Lochalsh in Boss-shire was reached at t in the afternoon, and there the Life-boat waited until 9.30 in the evening for the turn of the tide before sailing for Tobermory. The wind had fallen, and during the last two hours before reaching Tobermory at 1.30 the following afternoon, the crew had to take to the oars. Except for the 5J hours at Kyle of Lochalsh, waiting for the tide, the Life-boat had been i continuously at sea for 51 hours and i had travelled 205 miles.

The rest of that day and the following night were spent at Tobermory. At 9 on the morning of the 27th the Life- boat sailed again and beat through the Sound of Mull against a strong S.E.

wind. By evening it had backed to E.S.E., and as the night advanced wind and sea increased, the wind reaching gale force at times, and thick heavy rain fell. The Life-boat made the pas- sage through the Sound of Islay before fierce squalls during the night, but no one on board, in the state of the weather, was able to look at his watch.

The Mull of Cantyre was passed at 9 in the morning of the 28th. A heavy easterly gale was blowing, all hands being wet to the skin and very cold.

It had been intended to put into DonaghadeeinCo.Down,but the weather was so heavy and such seas were breaking over the Donaghadee break- water that it was decided not to attempt it, but to run on to Dublin. For the rest of that day and the following night the Life-boat encountered heavy winds and seas, and all hands were very wet and miserable. Dublin was reached at last at 8 on the morning of the 29th.

The Life-boat had then been at sea since leaving Tobermory, two days and two nights.

Altogether she was at sea for just over 92 hours. In that time she had travel- led approximately 430 miles, at an.

average speed of just under 5 knots.

The run from Tobermory to Dublin took 47 hours, and the distance travelled was 225 miles. This is believed to be the longest run ever undertaken by a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat..