St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 1.38 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, a message was received that a youth was being blown seawards in a rubber dinghy three-quarters of a mile off Coldingham Sands. Accordingly, at 1.45 the life-boat J. B. Couper, of Glasgow, was launched for the first time on service. The sea was choppy, with a moderate west-south-west gale blow- ing. She rescued the exhausted youth, and the life-boatmen gave him rum.

The J. B. Couper, of Glasgow, reached its station again at 2.25.—Rewards, £6 4s..