Troon, Ayrshire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 2nd of May, 1948, the pilot house telephoned that the steam pinnace of the Sea Cadets appeared to have broken down and was drifting towards the Black Rocks. The motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at 7.10, in a fresh north- westerly breeze with a choppy sea. and found the pinnace half a mile off shore with twenty-four officers and cadets on board. The life-boat towed her to the harbour, arriving back at her station at 8.20.—Rewards, £5 16s..