Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1957, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Northern Wave was ashore on the west side of Dunnet Bay.

At four o'clock the life-boat James Macfee, oil temporary duty at the station, put out in a heavy swell.

There was a moderate south-easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was ebb- ing. The life-boat found that the trawler was in no immediate danger, and stood by her until she refloated on the next high tide with the help of the life-boat. The life-boat then escorted her to Scrabster and returned to her moorings, arriving at three o'clock in the morning.—Property Salvage Case..