Anstruther, Fifeshire. —• During the morning of the 19th December, 1938, it was learned that the boatman who took stores to May Island had been unable, owing to bad weather, to make the trip for five days, and that the twenty-eight people on the island had only one day's rations left. A moderate E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was very cold, with snow. It was decided to send the motor life-boat Nellie and Charlie. Provisions were put on board, and she was launched at 11.25 A.M.

She went to the lee of the island into comparative shelter and the stores were put ashore. She returned to her station at 2 P.M. The people on the island expressed great gratitude for the life-boat's help.—Rewards, £9..