Longhope, Orkneys.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 1st of July, 1949, a message was received by telephone that a man, who had put out from Saltness in a small boat the previous evening to attend to his lobster creels, had not returned, and the life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 3.25.

A westerly breeze was blowing with a heavy swell. The life-boat found the man in his boat half a mile off Torness Point at four o'clock and brought him to the life-boat station, arriving at 4.45.—Rewards, £6 5s..