Aberdeen.—On the night of the 17th January three pilots went down-channel to change the lights marking the wreck of the trawler George Stroud. While they were at work the propeller of their cutter—William Porter—fouled the mooring-wire, and put the engine out of order. A fresh E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The cutter was carried on to the wreck and holed, and the pilots, fearing that she would sink, jumped on to the wreck. They were seen by watchmen on the north pier, and the motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 10.10 P.M. Sherescued the men, and towed their cutter, which was still afloat, into harbour, where it was beached. She returned to her station at 10.46 P.M.

The crew of the Institution's lifesaving rocket apparatus on the north pier were assembled, but their services were not required.—Property Salvage Case; Rocket Apparatus Rewards, £1 14s..