FEBRUARY 22ND . - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire several miles to the east of Dunbar.

She had been seen by the Observer Corps post on the coast. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The weather was thick. The motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched at 2.40 P.M., and found the Norwegian steamer Akabahra, of Horten.

She had been bombed by German aircraft and set on fire. but her crew had got the fire under control As she was leaking, the lifeboat stood by until repairs had been made and then returned to her station at 6.30 P.M.

- Rewards. £11 14s. 9d.