Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956.

the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message from the Wick radio station that the fishing boat Amber Queen, which had a crew of three, had broken down about two miles off Inganess, Yesnaby.

At 4.23 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was launched.

There was a swell and a moderate southerly gale, and the tide was flood- ing. The life-boat reached the Amber Queen at 5.20, towed her to Stromness, and reached her station again at 7.45. Rewards to the crew, £13 15s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £5 Is..