OCTOBER 29TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.

At about 10 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a vessel was showing distress flares north of Ross Island. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor life-boat Morison Watson was launched at 10.45 P.M. and found a motor vessel, The Pilot, half a mile north of Ross Lighthouse. She had a crew of two, and was bound, light, from Port William to Workington. Her engine had broken down.

The life-boat had great difficulty, in the heavy seas and darkness, in taking off the two men, and she was slightly damaged. She returned to Kirkcudbright, and landed the rescued men at 1.15 A.M. The Pilot broke up next day. - Rewards, £17 18s. 6d.