Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.7 on the evening of the 22nd October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Pern, of Aberdeen, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was driving ashore about three miles south-east of Milaid Point on the eastern side of the Island of Lewis.

The life-boat William and Harriot left her moorings at 8.50 in a rough sea, with a south-easterly gale blowing.

She found that another trawler had taken the Pern in tow, escorted them both to Loch Ewe and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.40 the next morning.—Rewards, £20 5*..