SEPTEMBER 1 0TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.

At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The coxswain and second-coxswain were out fishing, and another member of the crew took charge.

There was some delay in launching the lifeboat as the motor-mechanic was engaged five miles away, and at 2.5 the Port Patrick station was asked to launch. The Port Patrick motor life-boat Jeanie Speirs got away at 2.20 P.M. and the Girvan motor lifeboat Lily Glen - Glasgow at 2.45 P.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The Girvan life-boat found the pinnace four miles N. by E. of Ballantrae at 4.30 in the afternoon. She had three men on board, and her engine had broken down.

The life-boat took her in tow and reached Girvan again at 6.45 P.M. Meanwhile the Port Patrick life-boat had been recalled by wireless and reached her station at 4 P.M.- Rewards : Girvan, £9 1s. ; Port Patrick, £3 15s.