Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 4.45 in the morning of the 10th of September, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that the Portpatrick radio station had reported the steam drifter Abide, of Peterhead, bound for the Clyde, aground in the Sound of Islay, and the motor life-boat Charlotte Eliza- beth was launched at 5.30. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The life-boat found the drifter at Glas Eilean, and her crew of nine about to abandon her. She passed a line to the drifter and with great difficulty succeeded in towing her into deep water. The drifter's rudder was damaged and the life-boat escorted her to Caol Ila pier, helped her to make fast and returned to her station again at 10 o'clock.—Property Salvage Case.