St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 6.55 on the evening of the 18th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an outboard motor boat with a crew of three engaged in salvage operations on the wreck of the s.s. Nyon, which had gone aground on the 15th of November, 1958, had broken down off St. Abbs Head. At 7.35 the life-boat W. Ross Macarthur of Glasgow was launched in a choppy sea, with a mod- erate south-westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the boat, which was flying a red pullover on the end of an oar to attract attention.She took her in tow and reached her station at 8.35. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..