Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.20 in the evening of the 6th of November, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Eldborg, of Borgarnes, Iceland, had grounded half a mile south of Ardnamurchan, and the motor life- boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moorings at 10 o'clock and in a fresh south- easterly breeze with a moderate ground swell. She found the trawler pounding on a rock. She also had a list. But her crew of fourteen would not abandon her. The life-boat took soundings and, at the skipper's request, stood by.

Then the tug Enforcer arrived and tried to get the trawler clear, but the tow-rope parted. A second attempt was made at 9.30 the next morning and this time the Eldborg was refloated, damaged and leaking. The tug took the trawler in tow and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at one o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th.

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