Aberdeen.—At 11.14 on the morn- ing of the 4th of June, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that the lugger Maria, of Scheveningen, had wirelessed that she had in tow another Dutch lugger, the Dolphin, whose engine room was full of water. She gave her position as forty-five miles east of Aberdeen. She asked for a tug, but at 12.6 she reported that the Dolphin had sunk. Later she stated that she had rescued the Dolphin's crew of sixteen and needed a doctor to attend the skipper. At 12.50 the No. 1 life- boat Hilton Briggs was launched in a rough sea, with a strong easterly breeze blowing and an ebbing tide.

She embarked two doctors, one of whom was a woman. The life-boat, using her direction-finding gear, came up with the Maria thirty-eight miles east of Aberdeen and put the doctors aboard. The skipper of the Dolphinhad died, but the doctors remained on board the Maria, which made for Aberdeen. The life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 6.25.—Rewards to the crew, £12 8s.; reward to the helper on shore, 10s..