Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy swell and a strong south-easterly breeze. The tide was flooding. The life-boat reached the Solskin and found that she was leaking badly and had a list to port of twenty degrees. The master of the vessel asked for the life-boat to escort her to Aberdeen. As they made for Aberdeen the weather improved, and the motor vessel's pumps were able to deal with the leak. They arrived at Aberdeen at nine o'clock.—Rewards to the crew, etc., £25 11s.; rewards to the helper on shore, 12s..