Barra Island, Hebrides.—During a whole S.E. gale on the morning of the 15th December, 1938, the steamer Dorothy, of Glasgow, dragged her moorings in Castlebay Harbour and was driven on to the rocks on the west side of the harbour. She was in ballast, and carried a crew of four. A very heavy sea was running, and the weather was very cold. The motor life-boat Lloyd's put out at 7.45 A.M., got the Dorothy off the rocks and took her intow. Her bottom was found to be damaged and she was beached. But for the life-boat's help she would have been totally wrecked. The life-boat returned to her station at 10.45 A.M.— Property Salvage Case..