Thurso, Caithness-shire.—On the morning of the. 18th February the coastguard reported that the motor trawler Princess Charming, of Grimsby, which was off Holborn Head, was in need of immediate help. She was fishing out of Scrabster, and her engine had broken down. A fresh W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and squalls of snow. The life-boat coxswain and second coxswain were at sea, but the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched at 11 A.M., in charge of the bowman.

She found the Princess Charming about seven miles N.N.W. of Holborn Head, towed her back to Scrabster harbour, and returned to her station at 1 P.M.— Property Salvage Case..