Troon, Ayrshire.—At 3.30 on the morning of the 17th ofDecember, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Solbritt, of Vasa, Finland, had gone ashore half a mile south of Lamlash pier, and at 4.12 the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched. A north-north-west gale was blowing with a very rough sea.

The life-boat stood by the steamer until a tug arrived. She then put the tugmaster aboard the Solbritt, took him back to his tug, and passed a rope across. The tug towed the steamer clear, the steamer anchored, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at three o'clock in the after- noon.—Rewards, £22..