During a whole E.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the morning of the llth April, the Coxswain reported, at 3.30 A.M., that a steamer was ashore between Scrabster and Thurso. The weather was bitterly cold with heavy rain and snow showers, when a few minutes later the Motor Life-boat H.C.J. was launched. She found the s.s. Pentland Firth, of Newcastle, on the rocks beside the Eocket House, with a crew of ten on board, bound from Middles- brough to Dublin with a cargo of sul- phate of ammonia. She had dragged her anchors, parted from one, and had been driven aground. As the tide was ebbing there was very little water round the steamer, and the Life-boat was unable to get near, but she re- mained in attendance until the crew had been rescued by the Thurso Life- saving Apparatus, and then returned to her Station at 6 A.M.—Rewards, £9 17s.