On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor, but it dragged, and she signalled for help. A motor fishing boat near-by went to her, but she was too small and her engine not sufficiently powerful for her to be able to do any- thing, so she made for Maryport to get help, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched at 8.47 P.M.

A strong and increasing S. to S.W.

breeze was then blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. The life-boat towed the Maid of Erin back to Maryport, and returned to her station at 9.50 P.M. — Rewards, £18 9*. 6d..