IN the middle of June, 1939, a roe deer crossed the golf course opposite Aber- deen harbour, entered the harbour channel, and swam out to sea. Cox- swain Thomas Sinclair (who has twice won the Institution's silver medal for gallantry and also its bronze medal) put out to the rescue in a pilot cutter, with the life-boat's motor mechanic, Mr. William Simpson, and Mr. James Johnston, a pilot. They caught up the deer when it was half a mile out to sea, and succeeded in lassoing it and dragging it on board the cutter. There they had to tie its legs to prevent it from kicking, but not before it had kicked the motor mechanic. They then took the deer up the harbour channel, and a mile up the river Dee, until they came to open country, and put it ashore. In spite of these un- happy adventures the deer returned to the river the same day. This time the police took charge of it and released it again still further up country. It seems then to have abandoned its determination to go to sea, and appeared no more..