Aberdeen.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1953, the owners of the steam trawler General Botha, of Aberdeen, informed the Jife- boat station that the vessel was in urgent need of food and water. The trawler was five days overdue, and her crew had been without food for two days and her fresh water supply was also exhausted. A strong north- north-easterly breeze was blowing, with a heavy breaking sea, and owing to these conditions the port of Aber- deen was closed to shipping and likely to remain so for another twenty-four hours. The No. 1 life-boat HiltonBriggs left her moorings at 12.55, and, after taking aboard food and water, went out to the General Botha in Aberdeen Bay. With difficulty the stores were passed to the trawler, and the life-boat reached her station again at two o'clock.—Rewards, £7 8s..