St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.31 in the morning on the 29th of January, 1950, Niton radio station wirelessed that the S.S. Edirne, of Istanbul (a vessel of 3,653 tons, with a crew of fifty, bound for Denmark with oil cake) had radioed that she had gone aground.

At 3.22 the life-boat Queen Victoria left her moorings in a strong south-south- east breeze with a heavy swell. In spite of poor visibility she found the steamer at 7.51 on a reef on the north- east side of Burhou Island west of Alderney. She was hard and fast and badly holed, and her crew had aban- doned her. The life-boat came up with twenty of them in a ship's boat and rescued them. Among them was the master, who said that the other thirty men had got ashore. The life- boat therefore anchored and used the ship's boat to ferry them out. She then took two ship's boats and a dinghy in tow and made for Guernsey. Owing to the weather, however, the two boats had to be cut adrift, and so the life- boat reached her station at 1.20 in the afternoon with just the dinghy, the fifty men and their dog.—Rewards, £27 10s..