Peterhead, Aberdeenshlre.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that six boys in a rowing boat off the North Head had only two oars between them and were in difficulties in the tide and heavy swell, At 3.45 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow was launched in a heavy ground swell with a moderate south-south-east breeze blowing. She found the row- ing boat Defiant, rescued the boys and put a life-boatman aboard the Defiant.

She then towed the boat to Peterhead, arriving at 4.25.—Rewards, £10 2s. 6d.