Kirkcudbright.—At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 19th of September, 1954, the Ross Island coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties. She had been burning1 flares and was now drifting rapidly towards rocks. At 3.15 the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched in a rough sea.

A south-westerly gale was blowing.

She searched in a flood tide and found the yacht Larrios, of Douglas, with a crew of two, near Milton Sands at the entrance to the River Dee. The yacht's engine had broken down and she was in a dangerous position. The life-boat towed her to Kirkcudbright and reached her station again at 9.30.— Rewards, £9 18s..