Girvan, Ayrshire. —At 6.30 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Aurora had wirelessed that the fishing boat Thorn Paul, of Whitehaven, had lost her rudder about nine miles west of Girvan. The Aurora was going to her help. At seven o'clock the life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched in a rough sea. There was a strong north-north-west wind, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat stood by at the harbour bar until the Aurora entered the harbour with the Thorn Paul in tow, and then returned to her station, arriving at 7.35.—Rewards, £6 7*. 6d..