A NINE HOURS' SEARCH Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—A few minutes after five in the morning of the 17th of June, 1947, information was received through Portpatrick Radio Station and the coastguard, from a vessel, eight and a half miles north by west of Corsewall Point Lighthouse, that she had heard shouts and was searching for survivors from an un- known vessel. The motor life-boat Jeanie Speirs was launched at six o'clock in a strong southerly wind with a rough sea. She made a wide-search, but found only wreckage and patches of oil. Aircraft and other craft put out, but nothing more was found except one body picked up by the steamer which had heard the shouts, and the life-boat returned to her station arriv- ing at three in the afternoon. She had been out for nine hours. Later the body was identified as that of the engineer of .the yacht Aarla, which had left Tighna Cruiach the previous day.— Rewards, £15 19s..