Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles north-west of Mull Head, Papa Westray. She was a vessel of nearly 5,000 tons, with forty- one people on board, and wireless mes- sages indicated she was in tow of an Icelandic trawler. At 1.35 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched. Reaching the area about six o'clock, she made a wide search in a very rough sea with a north-westerly gale blowing, found nothing and at 4.45 made for Kirkwall, arriving at 9.15 next morning. After she had refuelled and her crew had had a meal, she resumed the search at 10.41.

This time she found the motor ship.

She was at Helyrholm, with the trawler escorting her. A life-boatman went on board, and piloted her to Kirkwall, accompanied by the trawler and the life-boat. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 6.30 on the night of the 19th.—Rewards, £63 7*..