Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 29th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the north side of Noss Head. At one o'clock the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a slight sea. The weather was calm and there was dense fog.

It was high water. With the help of the trawler's direction finding appara- tus the life-boat found the steam trawler Carency, of Aberdeen, with a crew of thirteen, ashore in the rocky inlet of Papigoe, near Wick. Her crew were transferred to the life-boat, and at the request of the trawler's skipper the life-boat stood by. The Wick life-saving apparatus team also stood by. At eleven o'clock the trawler Giluar arrived, and she joined the life-boat in attempts to tow theCarency off. They did not succeed, and the life-boat landed the Carency's crew at Wick at three o'clock. The Carency became a total loss.—Rewards to the crew, £28 17s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 4s..