Longhope, Orkney. — Early on the morning of the 29th September, 1938, a wireless message was picked up by a coast watcher stating that a vessel was ashore at Brims Ness, Hoy. No signals of distress could be heard nor could any vessel be seen ashore. The information was confirmed and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 4.45 A.M. The weather was foggy, with a moderate S.S.E. wind and moderate sea. Under Berry Head to the west of Torness the life-boat found the Grimsby steam trawler Worsley ashore, but in no immediate danger.

With the flood tide, however, came a heavy swell, and the trawler's crew, nine in number, were rescued by the life-boat, which returned to her station at 1 P.M. The Worsley became a total •wreck.—Rewards, £7 11s..