Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the morning of the llth January, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Viper's engine broke down when she was fishing about half a mile west of Ramore Head. She carried a crew of four. Another fishing boat, The Brothers, manned by five men, put off to her, but she, too, broke down. A moderate and increasing W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea, and both boats were in danger of drifting on to Ramore Head.

The coastguard telephoned to the lifeboat station, and the motor life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched at 11.30 A.M.

She picked up the boats when they were only one hundred yards off the shore, and towed them into safety. She returned to her station at 12.3 P.M.— Rewards, £6 145. 6d..