Girvan, Ayrshire. About one o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st of Novem- ber, 1951, when a gale was blowing, a message was heard on a fishing boat'swireless set in the harbour at Girvan that several fishing boats had left Whiting Bay for Girvan. They were asking what the weather conditions were. The coxswain wirelessed that there was a heavy sea running on the harbour bar and that the life-boat would stand by outside. At 2.15 the life-boat Lily Glen — Glasgow was launched, and half an hour later the local fishing boat Girl Anne came into sight. The life-boat escorted her to the harbour and stood by the bar again.

At four o'clock the local fishing boat Maureen approached the bar, and she too was escorted to her moorings by the life-boat which then returned to her station arriving at 5.0.—Rewards, £7 18s. 6d..