Wick, Caithness-shire. — The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 9 P.M. on the 28th March, in response to a message received through Wick Radio and the coastguard.

A strong S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was thick. About four miles south of Duncansbay Head the life-boat found the s.s. Osterhav, of Helsingfors.

The Osterhav was bound, with a crew of twenty-nine, including five women, and a cargo of pulp-wood, from Finland to EUesmere Port. She had struck the head and was badly holed. Two of the life-boat's crew went on board to pilot her into Wick, but she was making water rapidly, and had to be beached in Sinclair Bay. The lifeboat stood by all night. At 9 A.M.

on the 29th she took off twenty-one of the crew and landed them at Ackergill.

She went back to the Osterhav, but the captain and officers did not want to leave their ship, and the lifeboat returned to Ackergill at 1 P.M.

At 4 P.M. she put out again, however, and this time rescued the remaining eight men. She returned to her station at 6.30 P.M., after having been away for twenty-one and a half hours,— Rewards, £32 14*. 9d..