Troon, Ayrshire.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 14th of May, 1956, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned the coxswain to say that the police had reported that two people in a motor boat had been seen waving and appeared to need help. At five o'clock the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a moderate sea. There was a light westerly breeze, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the boat a hundred yards west- north-west of Newtown-on-Avr pro- menade. She was a 32-feet motor boat. She had run out of petrol and had anchored, and the life-boat towed her to Ayr and then returned to her station, arriving back at 7.15.—Re- wards to the crew, £8 8s..