Troon, Ayrshire. — At 12.25 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Gracehill, of Belfast, had broken down to the north of Ayr Harbour, and was drifting towards Newton Rocks. At 12.28 the coastguard reported that she had gone aground about a quarter of a mile off the shore, and at 12.40 the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow left her moorings. A west-north-westerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain, and she found the Gracehill laden with coal. She was on the rocks. The life-boat went alongside her sheltered side, rescued her crew of ten, and took them to Ayr, reaching her station again at 3.30.—Rewards, £5 7*..