Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—About 6.40 in the evening of the lit11 of April, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing boat in difficulties to the southward, and the life-boat Jeanie Spears was launched at 7.5 in a fresh west-south- west breeze with a moderate sea. She found the local motor fishing boat Nellie, with a crew of three, one and a half miles south of the harbour. Her engine had broken down. The life- boat towed her in, and reached her station again at 7.35.—Rewards, £5 5*..