Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30 P.M., and the Thurso motor life-boat H.C.J. at 11 P.M., on the 25th February, as news had been received from the coastguard that the steam trawler Silanion, of Grimsby, was in distress north of Dunnet Head. She carried a crew of thirteen, and was bound for the Iceland fishing grounds, when she stranded at Torness Point, Hoy Island, in the Orkneys. A strong E. to E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and showers of snow and sleet. The Longhope life-boat was the first to find the trawler, and getting alongside threw ropes aboard. Then, as she rose on the swell to the level of the trawler's deck, the trawler's crew jumped into her. She landed the rescued men at Longhope pier and returned to her station at two the next morning. The Thurso life-boat arrived to see the flares burning on board the Silanion, but found that she had already been abandoned. She arrived back at her station at three-fifteen the next morning.—Rewards, Longhope, £14 16s. 6d.; Thurso, £14 10s. Qd..