Islay, Inner Hebrides.—On the morn- ing of the 24th of August, 1949, the tide and weather being suitable, the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was beached at seven o'clock for cleaning and paintingher bottom. At 9.40 the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a distress call had been received from the steam trawler Wardour, of Fleetwood. With a crew of seventeen, she had run aground in the Sound of Islay, three miles south of the life-boat station, while outward bound for Iceland.

The sea was calm and the coxswain put out in his own boat. He took off the trawler's crew, leaving the skipper and engineer aboard. He also left a dinghy, so that they could come ashore if danger arose. The life-boat station communicated at intervals with the trawler, and at half past four, when the life-boat was afloat again, she went out and stood by the trawler. The trawler's crew, meanwhile, had come out in another boat, and with the help of a kedge anchor refloated her on the rising tide, and the life-boat escorted her to an anchorage. She returned to her station at 7.30 in the evening.— Rewards, £5 Ss. 6d..