AUGUST 3RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a trawler under the cliffs at Skirza Head sounding an S.O.S. There was thick fog and a gentle S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight sea. The motor life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.20 A.M. Then came another message that the trawler, the Rowsley, of Grimsby, had refloated. When the life-boat reached Freswick Pier she found one of the trawler’s crew in the ship’s boat. He had been lost in the fog when the trawler refloated.

The life-boat took him on board, and after a search found the Rowsley herself leaking, and escorted her to Wick Harbour. The trawler had a crew of eleven and was bound for the Faroes. - Rewards, £3 15s..