Stromness, Orkneys.—At 11.50 P.M. on the 8th March the Kirkwall coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen off Mull Head, Papa Westray, and that the life-boat was wanted. The motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W. put out at 12.15 A.M. on the 9th. Meanwhile the vessel had gone ashore at Aikerness Holm, Westray, and the life-boat found her there at 5.30 A.M. The wind was light, but there was a heavy ground swell. The vessel was the steam trawler Loch Buie, of Aberdeen, homeward bound, with a crew of eleven on board.

She had washed over the reef on which she had struck, and was lying in shallow water, leaking in the stokehold. Owingto the darkness, and the outlying reefs, the life-boat had some difficulty in getting alongside, but she succeeded and rescued the eleven men. The skipper and engineer were put ashore at Westray and the others were taken back to Stromness, where the life-boat arrived at 11.45 A.M. She had been on service for eleven and a half hours.— Rewards, £23 17s..