CAUGHT BY SUDDEN GALES Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — On the morning of the 13th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of several local fishing boats at sea, for a gale was getting up, and at 12.15, when it was blowing a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea running, the motor life-boat Jeanie Speirs was launched. She found the fishing boats, Adoration, Ebenezer and Nellie, escorted them to the harbour, and arrived back at her station at 1.30.—Rewards, £7..