Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.

The Thurso life-boat was also launched.—Rewards, bronze medal, with vellum to the Longhope coxswain, and an increase in the usual money awards on the standard scale to him and to each member of his crew.— Rewards, Longhope, £15 18s.; Thurso, £14 10s. 6d.

(A full account of this service will be published in the next issue.).