GAVE A COURSE IN THE FOG Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 27th of March, 1947, the Tara coastguard sent a warning message that a small vessel appeared to be in danger near Butter Pladdy Buoy.

The weather was foggy, with a strong easterly breeze blowing and a moder- ately rough sea. A later message said that the vessel was off her course, and at 12.32 the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched. She found the S.S. Stranmore, of Belfast, which said that she had missed the South Rock Lightship in the fog, and believed that she was near Strangford Bar. She was in fact some five miles away from it.

The life-boat put the Stranmore on her proper course and reached her station again at 2.26 that afternoon.—Rewards, £17 155. 6d..