JANUARY 20TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.

At 11.43 A.M. a report was received from the police, through the coastguard, that a fishing boat was in need of help about two miles north of the harbour, and the motor life-boat Lily Glen, Glasgow was launched at 12.15 P.M.

A light southerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and snow. The life-boat found the fishing boat Cheerful, of Fraserburgh.

She had been fishing from Stranraer with a crew of five, had been badly holed, and was sinking. The fishermen were so numb that they could not help themselves, so two lifeboatmen boarded the Cheerful, and the lifeboat towed her into Girvan harbour, where she was beached. - Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..