Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 6.49 A.M. on the 15th January, 1938, the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nell's Point reported an S O S from the Greek steamer George J. Goulandris, of Andros, off Nash Point. She carried a crew of twenty-eight, and was bound in ballast from Cardiff for Huelva, in Spain. A strong W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The new motor life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 7.9 A.M., and at 8 A.M. found the steamer off Breaksea Point, about seven miles from Barry.

As the steamer was unmanageable, the captain asked the life-boat to take a tow-rope in an effort to get the steamer'shead round and get her under control.

After one or two attempts a tow-rope was made fast and the life-boat started to tow, but three times the rope parted.

Eventually with the help of the flood tide the steamer was got to a safe anchorage in the Barry Roads at 2.20 P.M., and the life-boat returned to her station at 2.35 P.M.—Property Salvage Case..