During a dense fog on the evening of the 27th March the steam trawler Le Vieux Tigre, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks at Beast Point. A moderate E.S.E.

wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. Lloyd's signal station re- ported her, and the motor life-boat Duke of York was launched at 8.7 P.M.

She ran alongside and took off thirteen men and two dogs. The remaining five members of the crew would not leave at once, and so the life-boat stood by. At 1 A.M. the five men launched a ship's boat, but they got lost in the fog, and the life-boat had to search for some considerable time before picking them up. The rescued men were taken ashore, and the lifeboat returned to her station at 6.45 A.M.

She had been on service for nearly eleven hours. Le Vieux Tigre became a total loss. Her stern was firmly wedged between rocks, and she was almost wholly submerged at high water.—Rewards, £21 10.9. 6d..