Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three miles east of Elie. At 5.15 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson .was launched in a moderate sea. A fresh west-south-westerly wind was blowing, and it was low water. The life-boat found the motor vessel Service standing by the motor fishing vessel Harbinger, of Anstruther, five miles east-south-east of Carr lightvessel. The Harbinger's propeller had been fouled by fishing nets, and the life-boat towed her to Anstruther, arriving at ten o'clock.

The Dunbar life-boat was also launch- ed. Rewards to the crew, £12 ; re- wards to the helpers on shore, £6 10s..