Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 7.55 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1953, a telephone message was received at the life-boat station stating that a ship had gone aground half a mile south of Staithes. At 8.30 the life-boat Robert Patton—The Always Ready was launched in a moderate sea with an easterly wind blowing. She found the S.S. Grano, of Stockholm, with a crew of twenty-six. Two tugs also found her, and the life-boat stood by all day and passed ropes from the steamer to them. The tugs refloated the Grano, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 7.15 in the evening.

—Property Salvage Case..