DECEMBER 21ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

At 1.45 in the afternoon the motor fishing boat Laurel put out from St. Abbs to search for another local boat, the motor fishing boat Faithful, which, with a crew of three on board, was overdue. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At two o’clock a flare was seen and the motor lifeboat Annie Ronald and Isobella Forrest was launched. She found the Faithful three miles east-north-east of St. Abbs. Her propeller had been fouled by a rope and she had been in danger of being swamped by the heavy sea. Her flare had also been seen by the Laurel, which had her in tow, but as they were making little progress the life-boat took them both in tow, and brought them into St. Abbs at three o’clock. - Rewards, £7 17s..