APRIL 3 0 T H . - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 12.10 A.M. information was received that a vessel was in distress on the North side of Wick Bay. A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 12.30 A.M. and found the Aberdeen steam trawler Strathalford, with a crew of ten, hard a n d f a s t o n t h e r o c k s . S h e l a y a l m o s t surrounded by them and the seas were breaking over her. The life-boat could not get alongside, but she was able to pick up one man who had been washed overboard.

Meanwhile the coastguard life-saving apparatus had come into action and, with the lifeboat standing by and playing her searchlight on the trawler it rescued five men. Three had already been drowned. One man was still on the trawler clinging to the rigging.

After several attempts the life-boat got aline to him and hauled him aboard. She returned to her station at 5 A.M. - Rewards, £8 1s..