MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.

At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of Wigtownshire.

A north-easterly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain. The motor lifeboat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 6.40 A.M., but was recalled by wireless just before she reached the Scottish coast, as the vessel in distress, which was the S.S. Burring.

ton Combe, had been taken in tow by tugs.

The life-boat arrived back at her station at 10.45 A.M. This was an arduous service and an increase in the usual money award on the standard scale was made to each member of the crew. - Standard rewards to crew and helpers, £7 ; additional rewards to crew, £4 ; total rewards, £11..