Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1949, the Gravir Post Office telephoned that a vessel between the Shiant Isles was sounding her whistle, and the life- boat William and Harriot was launched at 3.55, in a fresh, north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. She found the steam drifter Hero, of Inverness, with a crew of nine. She had drifted all night with her engines broken down and was now at anchor off the rocks at the northern end of the Isles. The life-boat towed her to Stornoway Harbour, arriving at 12.30 the next morning.— Property salvage case..