Thurso, Caithness-shire. Four seine net fishing boats—Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crest—were overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso on the 9th January, 1939. The motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched at 3.25 P.M., with the second coxswain in charge, and met the boats coming home. Against the heavy sea and strong ebb tide the fishing boats made but slow progress. The life-boat escorted them until they reached Scrabster Harbour at 6.30 P.M.—Rewards, £11 3*..