Port Askaig, Isle of Islay.—Early on the morning of the 17th October the s.s. Shuna, of Glasgow, bound for Gothenburg, ran hard on the rocks one mile S.S.W. of Chuirn Island Light.

A west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. An incoming steamer reported her danger, and the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.30 A.M. She found the Shuna pounding badly, with her forward holds flooded. She took off six of the crew of seventeen, landed them at Port Askaig at 5.30 P.M., and put off again ah hour later. She stood by the steamer all that night and next day.

The weather was then very bad, with violent squalls, and heavy rain showers, and eventually she landed the remaining eleven men at 7.30 P.M. on the 18th, thirty-two hours after she had first put out. At 10 A.M. on the 19th the life-boat took out the captain and six men and put them on board the steamer, returning to her station at 3 P.M. Next day a salvage officer who circled the wreck in an aeroplane warned the life-boat station that the men must leave the ship again, as their position was very dangerous. The life-boat put out at 9 A.M., the branch honorary secretary, Mr. Maclndeor, and the salvage officer going with her.

She rescued the seven men and returnedto her station at 3 P.M.—Rewards, £40 3s.; No expense to Institution for second launch..