Troon, Ayrshire.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of October, 1955, two boys told the coxswain that a motor boat was in difficulties near the rocks off Ballast Bank. Ten minutes later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out. There was a moderate sea, and a light north-north-west breeze, and it was nearly high water.

The life-boat made a search and found the motor boat Vagabond with a crew of two. She had broken down, so the life-boat towed her to the harbour and reached her station again at 3.20.

—Rewards to the crew, £7 10s.; reward to the two boys who gave the first information of the casualty, 10s.