Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four miles west of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. The news was received by the Fraserburgh life-boat station from the coastguard at 1.55 A.M., and at 2.8 the motor life-boat Lady Rothes, was launched. The Board of Trade's life-saving rocket apparatus at Fraser- burgh was also called out. The wind, which was from the north-north-west, was moderate, but there was a heavy ground swell. The night was very dark and very cold. There were frequent and heavy snow showers.

Right among the Rocks.

The trawler was lying very danger- ously among rocks. She had run well in among them before she struck.

She was fifty yards from the shore, lying at an angle of about forty-five degrees. Her lee gunwale was under water and the seas were breaking over her starboard quarter, and washing her from end to end. The tide was rising and threatened to . submerge her altogether. It took the life-boat half an hour to reach her, and after examining her with his searchlight, the coxswain anchored about one hundred yards away and veered down among the rocks. Lines were thrown on board the trawler and the life-boat was hauled to her lee side. There she was made fast. In the trough of the seas she can have had no more than four feet of water under her keel. For five minutes the life- boat was alongside while the nine men of the trawler, some of whom were in the wheel-house and others in the rigging, jumped aboard. Then the securing ropes were cut, the life-boat hauled back to her anchor, and the anchor weighed. Shortly before four in the morning the life-boat reached Fraserburgh again.

Meanwhile the rocket life-saving apparatus had been making very gal- lant efforts to reach the scene of the wreck overland. The snow was so heavy that it could not get on, but the people of Sandhaven had sent a vehicle out to meet it, and the gear was carried across the snowdrifts from one vehicle to the other. The men worked desper- ately, for the people at Sandhaven were certain that it was impossible for the life-boat to reach the wreck. That she did it was due to the cool and coura- geous seamanship of the coxswain. He knew that he risked wrecking the life- boat among the rocks, and risked being washed aboard the wreck in the con- fused surge of the sea, but he took these risks, as there was no other way of saving the trawler's crew.

To COXSWAIN JAMES S. SIM the Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry accompanied by a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, and to him and each member of the crew an increased money award of £2 17s. 6d. each, making a total award of £24 9s. Od. Cox- swain Sim already holds the silver medal of the Institution which he won in 1912 as second coxswain, for an act of great personal gallantry when he went overboard with a line to the crew of a trawler, wrecked on the rocks, who could not have been reached in any other way..