Stromness, Orkneys.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Bempton, of Aberdeen, had run ashore between Wason's Buoy and Scapa, and at 2.27 the life-boat J.J.K.S.W.

was launched. There was a moderate sea, with a gale blowing from the south-east. The life-boat found the trawler in tow of a tug. The tug had refloated the trawler, and the life-boat escorted them to Scapa and reached her station again at 7.45.— Rewards, £20 5*..