St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about three hundred yards north of the south breakwater off St. Sampson's harbour. He asked for the life-boat, and at 5.22 the Queen Victoria left her moorings in a moder- ate sea with a strong north-easterly breeze blowing. She found the Fer- main, a collier of 1,086 tons. The pilot boat from St. Sampson's had rescued eight men from her and had just returned to the position to rescue the other six. The life-boat sprayed oil on the sea, shone her searchlight while the pilot boat took the men on board, and then escorted her to St. Sampson's, reaching her station again at 6.17.—Rewards, £7 10*..