Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of December, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay, and that another trawler was standing by, but could not help. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.15, in a south-easterly gale with a rough sea.

She found the trawler Roden, of Fleet- wood, at Glas Eilean, bound for the fishing grounds with sixteen men. She was hard on the rocks. The life-boat went alongside, rescued the crew, put eight of the men on board the other trawler, the Red Charger, which was bound for Fleetwood, and landed the remainder at Islay at 6 o'clock that evening. The Roden was refloated three days later.—Rewards, £13 6s..