Dunbar, East Lothian.-—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from the steam trawler Princess Mary, received through Stonehaven Radio, that she had a Dunbar fishing boat in tow. As the trawler was too big to enter the harbour she requested that the life-boat should go out and meet her. The life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was therefore launched at 1.50 in a rough sea, with a strong south-westerly wind blowing. Six miles south-east of May Island she found the motor fishing boat Endeavour, with her propeller fouled by a net.

The life-boat escorted the trawler and fishing boat for some distance and then took the fishing boat in tow, arriving at Dunbar at 2.45.—Rewards, £7..