Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.

on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.

The weather was very foggy, with a fresh southerly breeze and a rough sea.

The motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 7 A.M. and found the trawler, but she had already got off.She was making a lot of water and the skipper decided to make for Wick, accompanied by another trawler and the life-boat. The Washington was safely berthed at twelve noon.—Rewards, £4 105. 6d..