HULL TRAWLER WRECKED IN THE HEBRIDES Tobermory, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.35 in the morning of the 24th of April, 1947, the Kyle coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore on Fladda Island near Culipool and was firing distress rockets. The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose slipped her moorings at 1.30 in a moderately strong westerly gale, with a rough sea and heavy rain squalls. She reached the position at six o'clock that morning and found the Hull trawler Benghazi, pounding heavily on a reef alongside the Fladda lighthouse. The trawler was bound for Fleetwood from Iceland laden with fish and she carried a crew of sixteen. By signalling the life-boat learned that three of the crew were on the island, and that the remainder were adrift in the ship's boat. She searched for the boat among the neighbouring islands and at nine o'clock received a wireless message that the missing men had landed safely on Luing Island. She then returned to Fladda and with the help of a small boat took aboard the three men who had landed there. After landing the men at Oban at 3.10 in the afternoon she made for her station arriving at 6.30 that evening.—Rewards, £28 9s..