Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1951, a man telephoned from Helms- dale that he had taken three men out in a coble to shoot sea birds and landed them on a cliff west of Berrie- dale Head. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough, and he had been unable to take them off.

One of the marooned men succeeded in climbing to the top of the cliff and the coastguard's shore life - saving company went to rescue the other two.

They were unable to do it, and at 11.15 the life-boat, City of Edinburgh was launched. A shore boat also put out from Helmsdale. There was a thick fog, and in that, and the dark- ness, the two boats could not find the men. They waited until daylight and then the shore boat rescued one and the life-boat the other. She landed him at Helmsdale and arrived back at her station at 12.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd.—Rewards, £27 3*..