In a dense fog on the afternoon of the 23rd June the Red Star liner Gothland, from Montreal to Rotterdam, with passengers and a cargo of wheat, ran ashore on the Crim Rocks. Information of the casualty was at once transmitted by means of wireless telegraphy, and the Life-boats Henry Dundas, from St.

Mary's, and Charles Deere James, from St.

Agnes, promptly responded. Valuable assistance was given to them by the s.s.

Lyonesse, which also proceeded to the stranded vessel. When the Lyonesse arrived on the scene the work of saving the passengers commenced. Unfortun- ately, in lowering one of the ship's boats, containing forty-two people, including several women and children, the boat fell from the davits into the sea and was smashed, throwing many of her occupants into the water. Some of these would undoubtedly have been drowned had not the Life-boat been there to pick them up, and even with this timely assistance one stewardess was nearly drowned. Eventually eighty-one of the crew and passengers were taken off by the St. Mary's boat, and seventy- one by the St. Agnes boat, and either taken ashore or transferred to the Lyonesse. This steamer then towed the St. Mary's boat back to her station.

The life-saving work was completed at about 9.30 P.M., but as the captain and some of the crew were remaining on the ship for the purpose of saving her, the St. Agnes boat stood by throughout the night, and returned to her station at 8.30 next morning..