Kirkcudbright.—At 9.10 on the even- ing of the 16th of July, 1954, a man at Kippford rang up to say that a boat with Sea Cadets on board had stranded off Southerness lighthouse, and that her crew were waving. At 9.42 the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh south-westerly breeze was blow- ing, and the tide was half flood. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Douglas, with two officers and six Dumfries Sea Cadets on board, in a dangerous position a mile south of the lighthouse, towed her to Balcary Bay,1 and reached her station again at 6.50 on the morning of the 17th.—Rewards, £20 11*..