Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 9th of March, 1957, a message was received that a ship's boat had been seen drifting between Stroma and C'antick Head. At 11.15 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched in a slight swell. There was a gentle south-easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was flooding. The life- boat found the boat almost on the rocks one mile west of Cantick, but there was nobody on board. She took the boat in tow and reached her station again at 12.50.—Rewards to the crew, £8 15,9.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 Ils..