Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 29th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Hopeful, of Thurso, had broken down twenty-five miles south of Wick. At three o'clock the life-boat Citi/ of Edinburgh was launched in a smooth sea. There was a light south-easterly breeze, and it was high water. The life-boat came up with the Hopeful, which had a crew of four and was bound from Buckie to Thurso, and took her in tow. She arrived back at her station at 9.50.— Rewards to the crew, £12 55..