Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was launched in a moderate swell with a southerly wind blowing. She found the steam trawler Viking Deeps, of Aberdeen in danger of sinking, having struck a rock.

Her crew of twelve had already been taken off by two drifters, but three of them went back on board and three others boarded the life-boat with the same object. However, they were not needed, as the first three got the engines going; when, under her own power, the Viking Deeps, escorted by the life-boat, reached Stornoway and was beached alongside the pier at ten o'clock.—Rewards, £8 15s..