Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.58 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the trawler Sea Hunter, which had a crew of twelve, had wire- lessed that she was leaking off the Shiant Islands, and that her pumps could not keep pace with the water.

At 1.30 the life-boat William and Harriot put out in a rough sea with a strong westerly gale blowing. She found the trawler in North Minch, eight miles from Stornoway, making for harbour. A life-boatman boarded her and piloted her to Stornoway, escorted by the life-boat, which reached her station again at 3.15.— Rewards, £7..