Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.30 on the night of the 26th of Mav, 1953. a man rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Brenjean, of Yar- mouth, had gone aground on the south side of the entrance to Castlebay har- bour. At 10.55 the life-boat Manchester and Salford, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a calm sea with a light north-westerly breeze blowing.

She found the lirenjean, with a crew of ten, on a reef, and stood by her until she refloated at four o'clock on the morning of the 27th. She then re- turned to her station, arriving at 4.30.

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