Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a motor fishing boat was ashore off Ayr harbour. At eleven o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched, in a light southerly breeze, with a smoothsea, and found the motor fishing boat Nan McMarrar, of Campbeltown, on Blackburn Rocks, and leaking. The life-boat could get no nearer to her than one hundred feet, owing to the shallow water, so she made for Ayr and took on board a pump and three firemen.

After waiting for over an hour for the tide to rise she was just able to put them on board the Nan McMarrar.

She then returned ashore, and her crew' had a meal. She got back to the Nan McMarrar and this time was able to make fast alongside. With the help of the fishing boat Lead Me, of Camp- beltown, she towed the Nan McMarrar off the rocks and beached her in Ayr harbour. She returned to her station at 7 o'clock in the evening.—Property Salvage Case..