On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.

gale was blowing with a very heavy sea.

The weather was cold with hail squalls, and visibility was poor. The motor life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out at two in the morning, steering a course by which it was calculated that she would intercept the steamer if she were drifting. When she reached the position given in the wireless message she cruised about for an hour but as she could find no sign of the steamer the coxswain concluded that she must be in tow of trawlers.

She did, in fact, safely make Dingla Bay. The life-boat returned home, arriving at 7.30 in the evening. She had then been out for 17J hours in very severe conditions of weather and had travelled 140 miles. The Institution presented inscribed silver watches to Coxswain Thomas Crowley and motor mechanic John Doyle, gave additional monetary rewards to them and each member of the crew, and sent a letter of appreciation to Mr. Timothy F. Barrett, the honorary secretary.— Rewards, £42 6s. 6d..