Stromness, Orkneys. At ten o'clock on the night of the 10th of December, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that there was a boat ashore in Hoy Sound. Ten minutes later the life-boat Archibald and Alex- ander M. Paterson was launched in a smooth sea, with a gentle easterly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat reached the position and found the motor fishing vessel Snowflake near Point of Ness. She stood by until low water, and as the vessel was in no immediate danger, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.25. At seven o'clock the next morning the life- boat returned to the fishing vessel and stood by until she refloated at high water. The life-boat finally reached her station at 9.30. Rewards to the crew, £14 5s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2 11s..