On the 19th August the 6,000-ton motor vessel Gunnaren, of Gothenburg, bound home from New York, ran ashore east of the lighthouse on Tarf, Swona Island, in a dense fog. She carried a crew of thirty-five and a general cargo. She sent out a wireless call for help, and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 7.40 A.M. At the captain's request the life-boat stood by until the afternoon, when she took ashore forty-one bags of Swedish mail.

She returned and stood by again. At 2 A.M. next day the Gunnaren took a heavy list to starboard, and her crew were in danger. Twenty-six of them were put aboard the ship's life-boat, and the life-boat towed them to Long- hope. Once again she returned to the Gunnaren, and stood by all that day and night, and the following day up to 6 P.M. By that time tugs were in attendance, and the life-boat put back to her station. She had been on service over fifty-eight hours. The Gunnaren remained ashore, and next day, as she was not in immediate danger, some of her crew returned to her. At 4.20 P.M. on the 23rd Wick coastguard telephoned that the Gunnaren was again calling by wireless for the life- boat, and she was launched at 4.40 P.M.

A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The life-boat went alongside the Gunnaren and took off twenty men. The officers went on board the attendant tugs for the night, and the life-boat returned to her station at 10.40 P.M. The Gunnaren later broke in two and became a total wreck. — Rewards : First service, £25 2s. 6d.; Second service, £14 18s. 6d..