Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Etna, of Stock- holm, had wirelessed that she had gone aground on the Skerrinoe Rocks off the east coast of Scalpay, and that she needed help. At 4.30 the life-boat William and Harriot put out in a rough sea, with a moderate south-south-west gale blowing. She found the Etna anchored, with her well-decks awash.

She was down by the bow and was listing. The life-boat went alongsideand secured to her, and the Etna's crew of twenty-five, including two women, were taken on board. The life-boat then cast off and made for her station, arriving at 12.15. The steamer sank.—Rewards, £15 15s..