Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 22nd February, 1939, a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat. The trawler was reported, but incorrectly, to be thirty-five miles E.S.E. of Bard Head,Bressay. A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, when, at 11.5 A.M., the motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was launched. She found the Jean Edmonds in tow of another trawler, between Mousa Island and Helliness, and close to a lee shore.

Had the tow-rope parted the Jean Edmonds would have been in a very dangerous position. The life-boat escorted the two vessels into Lerwick Harbour and returned to her moorings at 5.40 P.M.—Rewards, £9 19*. Qd..