Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that one of the Gourdon fishing fleet, Emulate, was overdue. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at noon. There was a heavy swell, a gentle to fresh south-south-easterly breeze was blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat came up with the Emulate, with a crew of three, some six miles south-south-east of Gourdon. As the sea was too heavy to return to Gourdon, she escorted her to Stonehaven. The life-boat arrived back at her station at 6.30.—Rewards to the crew, £12 5*.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 8s..