Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a man at East Burrafirth saw that a fishing boat had broken down in the Rona and asked the driver of a car to tell the life-boat station. The motorist de- livered the message at 9.40, and at 9.56 the life-boat The Rankin put out.

The sea was rough and a fresh breeze was blowing from the west-south-west, with squalls of hail. The life-boat made for the position in a flooding tide and found the fishing boat Ivylea, of Stromness, with a crew of three.

She had broken down, and had been driven towards the shore, but the fishermen had restarted the engine.

Thev had then taken their boat clear of the shore and were making for Orkney. The life-boat stood by for some time. The Ivylea's engine broke down again, but her crew started it a second time, and the life-boat escorted her to Aith, arriving at 11.55.—Re- wards, £6 10*..