JULY 31ST. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 9.30 in the morning a message was received from the coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to a position thirteen miles southeast by east of Arbroath, in answer to a ship’s SOS. The weather was foggy and the sea calm. At 9.45 the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched and reached the position about 12.45. She searched for three hours and then picked up an empty boat belonging to the Aberdeen trawler Bracken Burn. She towed it to Arbroath, arriving at 4.30 that afternoon.- Rewards, £7 1s.