IN the account of the wreck of the trawler Ben Doran and the courageous efforts made to rescue her crew, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, we quoted a passage from a letter, received from a resident in the Shet- lands, in order to show the spirit of the rescuers. This letter stated that theskipper of the Smiling Morn said that he was willing to lose his boat and even his own life, but he would not give up.

He was determined to go on, and had to be forcibly restrained by the other men from continuing a hopeless attempt at rescue. We are now informed by Mr.

Kay, the Honorary Secretary of the Lerwick Branch, who was on board the Smiling Morn, that this story is " pure fiction." We very much regret that the correspondent who sent it to us, in all good faith, should have been misinformed, and that it should have appeared in the account of this service..