DRIFTING FOR TWENTY-SIX HOURS Cromarty.—At 1 o'clock in the after- noon of the 22nd of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the keeper of the Tarbert Ness Light- house that a fishing vessel was making distress signals four miles north of the lighthouse. The motor life-boat James MacFee was launched at 1.20, in a moderate south-easterly breeze with a heavy ground swell. She found the fishing vessel Village Maid with her propeller fouled, eight miles north of Tarbert Ness. She had been drifting for twenty-six hours and her crew of five were cold and hungry. The life- boat towed them to Portmahomack Harbour and arrived back at her station at 7.45 that night.—Rewards, £11 5*..