Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the llth of February, 1955, a man rang up to say that the local fishing boat Ploughboy had left for the fishing grounds at four in the morning, with a crew of two, but had not returned.Enquiries were made about her along the coast, and at 5.24 in the afternoon it was reported that she had been seen drifting between Mousa and Sumburgh Head. At 5.55 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary duty at the station, put out with the second cox- swain in charge in a very rough sea, with a strong north-easterly breeze blowing. There were heavy snow showers, and it was two hours before low water. The life-boat made a search and found the Ploughboy east of Virkie at 1.15 early on the 12th. The Plough- boy had run short of fuel, so the life-boat towed her to Lerwick, reaching her station again at nine o'clock, after spending fifteen hours at sea.—Re- wards, £34 5s..