JUNE 30TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE At 5.35P.M. a message was received from the Wick coastguard that an auxiliary fishing boat was in distress six miles E.N.E. of Dunnet Head. The wind was light and variable and the sea smooth. At 5.45 P.M. the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched and found the fishing boat Flora Dora, of Grimsby, with her engines broken down. A patrol boat had got her in tow and took her into Scrabster Harbour.

The life-boat escorted them and returned to her station at 9.10 P.M. - Rewards, £12 5s. 6d.