On the evening of the 19th November the Icelandic steam trawler Geysir, of Reykjavik, was in the Pentland Firth, homeward bound from Grimsby. She carried a crew of sixteen and two passengers, one of whom was a girl.

A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain squalls. A flood tide was running, and under its influence the Geysir ran ashore at Torness Point. She sent up flares, but she had already been seen from shore, and the Long- hope motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 9 P.M. At considerable risk, owing to the surrounding rocks, she went alongside the trawler, and succeeded in rescuing the eighteen on board. Great care had to be taken, as the life-boat was rising and falling heavily with the seas. The rescued were taken to Longhope, and the life- boat arrived back at her station at 11.40 P.M. She could not be rehoused immediately, on account of bad weather.

The crew of the Stromness motor life- boat had been assembled, but their help was not needed.—Rewards, Long- hope, £16 13s. 6d. ; Stromness, £l 7s..