Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 3.20 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Red Crusader, of Fleetwood, had radioed that she was ashore, two miles. north of Port Askaig. The life-boat Charlotte Eliza- beth left her moorings at 3.50 and in a moderate sea, with a light easterly breeze blowing, found the trawler on the Jura shore, lying on her side. The life-boat took off her crew of twenty and landed them at her station at 5.30. About five hours later, at his own request, she took the skipper and some of his crew back to the trawler and stood by while they tried to refloat her.

Eventually a salvage tug arrived, whereupon the life-boat returned to her station, which she reached at 5 o'clock that evening. The trawler was refloated by the tug the next afternoon.

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