Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 1.12 P.M.

on the 28th January the coastguard telephoned that a foreign trawler about one and a half miles N.E. of the coastguard station was making distress signals on her siren. A very strong S.E.

wind was blowing, with squalls of snow, and a very heavy swell was running in the bay. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was launched at 1.25 P.M., and found the trawler to be the Marc Archille, of Boulogne, bound for the Norwegian fishing grounds. One of her crew had injured his thumb, which had become septic. Accompanied by another member of the crew, he was landed and taken to hospital, where he was detained. The life-boat took his companion back to the ship, and returned to her station at 5.5 P.M.

—Rewards, £11 19s..