FEBRUARY 13TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. At 2.50 A.M. the Wick coastguard reported by telephone that signals of distress had been seen in Scrabster Bay, and at 3.30 A.M. the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched. A strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and snow. The lifeboat found the steam trawler Sanserit, of Aberdeen, with a crew of eleven, half-way between Scrabster and Thurso. She had dragged her anchor and driven ashore in shallow water. The sea was so heavy that the life-boat could not get alongside, and the snow so thick that her crew could not see, so she stood by until daylight. By that time the trawler was much closer inshore, and with great difficulty eight of the crew were rescued from the shore by the Scrabster coastguard life-saving apparatus. The other three members of the crew had been washed overboard and drowned. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.30 P.M. - Rewards, £23 4s.