Wick, Caithness-shire.—On the 10th February, 1938, the Belgian motor fishing vessel Ivo Luc, of Zeebrugge, had a breakdown of her engine while fishing off Clythness. She carried a crew of four. A fresh N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and squalls of snow. The Ivo Luc began to drift and sent out a wireless call for help.

This was passed by the coastguard to the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 2.32 P.M. She found the Ivo Luc seven or eight miles to the south-east and took her in tow for Wick harbour. The passage home was very slow, however, and the lifeboat did not return to her station until 2 A.M. next day. She had been at sea for eleven and a half hours.—Rewards, £23 10s. 6d..