Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.

She found her on the beach. Of the two men who had been in her, one had swum ashore, the other was drowned.

The life-boat reached her station again at 8.5 in the evening.—Rewards, £7..