JANUARY 5TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.

At 5.10 P.M. the coastguard reported distress signals a mile west of Eshaness Point, and the motor life-boat The Rankin was launched at 5.45 P.M. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of snow. The life-boat found the Norwegian motor vessel Nansen, with her engine and steering gear broken down, her fuel tanks empty, her anchor lost, and her crew of nine exhausted. They had been without food and water for several days. After some manoeuvring the life-boat took her in tow, and at 3.15 A.M. next morning brought her into Aith.

- Property salvage case..