Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1952, a message was received from the coastguard that a motor fishing boat had broken down off Torness and was burning oil rags as a signal for help.

The life-boat George and Sarah Strachan put out at 4.35 in a choppy sea with a moderate westerly wind blowing. She found the fishing boat Young Robert, of Dunbar, with a crew of four, dis- abled by an engine breakdown. The life-boat took her in tow and reached her station about seven o'clock.— Rewards, £8 15s..