FEB. 22ND. - LERWICK, SHETLAND.

At 10.45 A.M. a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat. The trawler was reported, but incorrectly, to be thirty-five miles E.S.E. of Bard Head, Bressay. A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, when, at 11.5 A.M., the motor life-boat Lady .Jane and Martha Ryland was launched.

She found the Jean Edmonds in tow of another trawler, between Mousa Island and Helliness, and close to a lee shore. Had the tow-rope parted the Jean Edmonds would have been in a very dangerous position. The life-boat escorted the two vessels into Lerwick Harbour and returned to her moorings at 5.40 P.M.-Rewards, £l0 6s. 6d..