NOVEMBER 2 8TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

During the night Dr. F. O. Taylor reported having received a message from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a government trawler had signalled for a doctor. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched at 7.45 P.M., with Dr. Taylor on board, and found H.M.T. Brabant one and a half miles S.E. of St. Abbs. The doctor went aboard and found that one of the crew had acute appendicitis. The man was brought ashore in the life-boat at 8.45 P.M. and Dr. Taylor arranged for an immediate operation in Berwick Infirmary. It probably saved the man’s life. - Rewards, £17 3s. 6d.