Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1957, the Cockburnspath coastguard telephoned a report that a canoe had capsized about four hundred yards from the beach just north of Cock- burnspath. At 2.40 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan put out.

There was a choppy sea, a gentle south-westerly breeze was blowing, and it was nearly high water. The life-boat reached the position and found that the occupants of the canoe had managed to come ashore. One of the men was in a very bad state, and as the life-boat could not come close enough inshore to land, two of the life-boat's crew were taken ashore by a small fishing boat to try to help him.

The man was given artificial respira- tion by a doctor and a nurse who had arrived on the scene, and help was also given by the coastguard and the two members of the life-boat's crew. They worked for nearly five hours without success, and the man died. The two members of the life-boat's crew went back to the life-boat, which they re- turned to her moorings with the canoe on board, arriving at six o'clock.— Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..