The S.S. Edirne
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..