Stromness, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a Swedish tanker had rescued the crew of six of the motor fishing vessel Vestfart, of Gothenburg, which had capsized, and wished to transfer them. The tanker had stated that she would be off Breckness at three o'clock on the morning of the 27th. At mid- night the life-boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched. There was a moderate sea and a light southerly breeze. The life-boat made for the position in an ebbing tide and came up with the tanker between three and four miles west of North Head at one o'clock.

The life-boat took the fishermen on board and landed them at her station at 2.25.—Rewards, £10 9s..