Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 21st of July, 1950, the Wick coastguard reported that the S.S. Basilisk, of Swansea, a ship of 7,000 tons laden with grain from Canada, was in need of help. She was listing heavily. Seventeen minutes later the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a light south-south-westerly breeze and smooth sea, but thick fog. She found the Basilisk three miles off Dunnet Head, and escorted her to Scrabster, where she was beached in the harbour. At the master's request the life-boat stood by the steamer until noon the following day, returning to her station at one o'clock.—Property Salvage Case..