Letters (from page 208) as crew, was out on service for If hours.

First she towed to safety two fishing dinghies, both with swamped outboard engines and both with four people aboard; one was taken to the weather shore at Clynder, the other to Rosneath. Eighteen other people were landed at Rhu Pier; they included members of fishing parties taken off one motor launch blown ashore at Helensburgh and another in Rhu Bay, as welt as the crews of six boats at moorings, in varying degrees of danger and unable to get ashore because tenders had been lost or because the weather made it too hazardous for the use of tenders. So, in all, 26 people were landed from craft in places from mid-Gareloch to Helensburgh.

Sending on to us Mr Forrest's letter, George Paton, secretary of Glasgow branch added, 'It is so encouraging when people say "Thank you"!'—THE EDITOR..