AUGUST 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.

At 2.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat, off Fifeness, making heavy weather. A south-easterly gale was blowing, the sea was very rough, and wind and sea were increasing. The motor life-boat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 2.55, with the assistant motor-mechanic in charge, and found the motor fishing boat Gem, of Crail, with a crew of three. She escorted her to Anstruther, but when they were within a mile of the harbour the Gem’s engine broke down. The life-boat then took her in tow and they reached Anstruther at 3.45. - Rewards, £6 19s. 6d..