Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.50 in the evening of the 13th of November, 1948, a message was received from Whitehaven that a fishing vessel which had put out from there had not re- turned, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched at 7.26 in a fresh southerly breeze with a rough sea.

She searched, but found nothing.

Visibility was poor, and she put into Whitehaven to inquire where the fish- ing vessel had last been seen. She left Whitehaven again about ten o'clock to continue the search and, half an hour after midnight, found the Salvia, of Inverness, ten miles to the north-west with her propeller fouled by her nets. She towed her to Whitehaven, arriving there at 7.15 in the morning, and returned to her station arriving at nine o'clock/—Rewards, £35 18s..