Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, parts of wireless messages were picked up at the life-boat station.

They came from tugs which appeared to be in difficulties with a vessel in tow. She was the motor vessel Hervor Bratt, of Gothenburg, with a crew of fourteen, which had been ashore on Trodday Island, Skye, on the 28th of January, when the life-boat at Storno- way, Lewis, landed twenty of her crew.

Then a message came that she had broken adrift from the tugs, and, at 7.58 that evening, she said that she was drifting ashore near Mull Lighthouse and asked for help. At 8.22 the life- boat City of Glasgow was launched. A north-north-west gale was -blowing, with a very rough sea. More wireless messages came from the tugs, which gave the position as eight miles south- south-west of Ailsa Craig, and when the life-boat arrived she found that they had succeeded in getting the Hervor Bratt in tow again, and were then making for Larnlash. At the captain's request the life-boat stood by until they reached the island of Pladda, and then returned to her station, where she arrived at 7.10 next morning.— Rewards, £27 8s. Qd..