Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the Wick coastguard telephoned that a drifter was in difficulties off Sandside.

The life-boat H.C.J. was launched twenty minutes later. A moderate north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the drifter to be the Handsome, of Stornoway, escorted her into Scrabster Harbour and returned to her station at half-past four.—Rewards, £9 7s..