St. Helier, Jersey.—At 6.5 in the morning of the 29th of February, 1952, the harbourmaster reported that the S.S. Lyntre, of Jersey, had wirelessed that she had hit rocks off Noirmont Point, and at 6.25 the life-boat Elizabeth Rippon left her moorings.

The sea was smooth. The life-boat found the Lyntre, laden with coal, drifting in St. Aubin's Bay. She haddamaged her propeller and rudder, was out of control and was making water.

The harbour tug put out, and the life-boat and a pilot boat took the steamer in tow, but they could not hold her. The Lyntre then anchored and waited for the tug, which took her in tow. The skipper's wife and ship's papers were first transferred to the life-boat, and the life-boat made a line fast to the stern of the steamer and helped to steer her. She was berthed in St. Helier and the life-boat reached her station again at 8.40.—Property Salvage Case..