Troon, Ayrshire.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Obsidian, of Glasgow, had wirelessed distress signals, giving her position as four miles west-by-north of Ayr. At 12.5 the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow left her moorings. A north-north-west gale was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat found the steamer, with a crew of twelve, six miles south of Pladda. She had anchored, but was dragging and her windlass could not lift the anchors. She slipped them and, at the request of the master, the life-boat escorted her to the lee of Holy Isle and then returned to her station, arriving at 4.50 on the morning of the 7th.—Rewards, £12 19*..