Longhope, Orkneys.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had run ashore on the west end of the Pentland Skerries.

At 4.30 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched. There was a moderate swell with a light south-easterly breeze and dense fog. The life-boat found the S.S. Rutgers Victory, of Los Angeles, with a crew of forty-five, bound for Stavanger, on the west side of Muckle Skerry. A life-boatman boarded her, and the life-boat stood bv. About two o'clock early on the morning of the 18th the steamer refloated, and when the fog had cleared slightly the life-boatman piloted her to Longhope Bay. The life-boat escorted her and reached her station again at nine o'clock.—Rewards, £31 13,?. 6d..