NOVEMBER 10TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. A gale from the east had been blowing all through November 9th, and on the 10th it rose to hurricane force, with a very heavy sea running and the air thick with spindrift. Many ships had taken shelter in the bay, and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was keeping watch on them.

One of them was the fishing smack Langness, from the Faroes, which was anchored in Scrabster roadstead. She was bound for Aberdeen with sixty tons of fish, and had a crew of seven. She had two anchors down, but at, 2.30 in the afternoon the honorary secretary saw her port cable part. Two minutes later he saw a distress flare burning on the smack and called out the life-boat crew. At 2.45 P .M. the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched and found the Langness riding very heavily to her remaining anchor.

The seas were so heavy that the life-boat had great difficulty in getting alongside. One sea nearly threw her right aboard the smack, and the next threw her against it, damaging her fender. In spite of this she succeeded in taking off the seven men and landed them at 3.15 P.M. Next day the Langness drove ashore. - Rewards, £8 7s. 6d..