At 5.40 P.M. on 15th May the Ventnor Coastguard telephoned Brooke and Yarmouth that the s.s. Roumelian, of Liverpool, bound laden from London to Alexandria, had been in collision with the s.s. St. Nazaire about twenty- four miles S.E. by E. of the Needles, was holed and was trying to make port.

Later the Roumelian wirelessed request- ing a pilot to be in readiness, and the Yarmouth Motor Life-boat B.A.S.P.

was launched at 6.57 P.M. in a light S.W. breeze with a ground swell, fog and heavy rain, informed the pilot vessel off the Needles of the position, and then found the steamer about four and a half miles S.E. of the Needles.

At the request of the captain the four passengers were taken aboard the Life- boat and landed, and then a pilot went aboard the Roumelian and beached her in the Solent. The Life-boat returned to her Station at 10 P.M. Meanwhile the Brooke Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Susan Ashley had been launched at 8.5 P.M., but her help was not needed as the steamer had got safely through the Needles. She arrived back at her Station at 10.30 P.M.—Rewards : Yar- mouth, £7 16s. ; Brooke, £32 12s..