Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At ap- proximately 5.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a member of the crew of the tanker San Casto, of London, had been injured. At 6.10 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out with a doctor on board. There was a moder- ate sea and a strong southerly breeze, and the tide was flooding. The life- boat came up with the San Canto six miles north-west of Portpatrick and found that the man had died. She brought the captain of the tanker and the body of the dead seaman ashore, arriving at 6.50. After the captain had reported the matter to the policethe life-boat returned the skipper to his ship and arrived back at her moorings at 9.6.—Rewards to the crew, £9 16s..