Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the local motor fishing boat Venture had left the island of Bernera, Lewis, for Stornoway on the 12th with a crew of three, but that she had not been heard of since. At one in the afternoon the life-boat William and Harriot left her moorings and made for the Sound of Harris in a rough sea with a moderate south-westerly breeze blowing. Meanwhile an American air- craft searched as far as Loch Hamna- way. The life-boat passed through the Sound, anchored for the night, and the next morning searched towards Loch Hamnaway. She found the Venture, which had been sheltering in Loch Hamnaway with engine trouble, in the Sound of Scarp, escorted her to Leverburgh, Harris, and then returned to Stornoway, arriving back at her station at 7.15 on the 16th. The life-boat had been at sea for over thirty hours.—Rewards £64 5*..