Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler William Cale, of London, that her trawl gear had fouled her propeller. She was then about four miles north-west-by-north of Stornoway Light, and the coast- guard said the trawler Red Lancer had gone to her help. The weather was very bad, and at seven o'clock the life-boat William and Harriot left her moorings in a northerly wind of hurricane force and a heavy sea. She found the two trawlers about seven miles north-west of Rudh Re Light and stood by while the Red Lancer tried to take the William Cale in tow. At 2.15 the coastguard reported that the Stornoway motor fishing boat Delight was drifting ashore in Gruinard Bay near Laid between Loch Broom and Loch Ewe, and this message was passed to the life-boat. The life-boat cox- swain decided to leave the trawlers and made for Gruinard Bay, but the Delight went ashore and her crew of two landed. The life-boat was not needed, and she went to Gairloch to refuel in case she had to return to thetrawlers. By this time, however, the Red Lancer had taken the William Cale in tow, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 5.30 the next morning.—Rewards, £48 5s..