Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1952, a telephone message was received from a man in Melvich that a fishing boat was in distress six miles east- north-east of Port Skerra. At 2.10 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a fresh northerly breeze blowing. She found the motor fishing boat Undaunted, of Wick, with a crew of four, escorted her to Scrabster, and reached her station again at 4.30.— Rewards, £11 12*. 6d..