St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the motor vessel Island Commo- dore, of London, bound for Cherbourg with thirty-seven people on board, wire- lessed the life-boat station that her steering gear had broken down and that she needed help between Alderney and Burhou. At 1.3 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out in a very rough sea. A strong breeze was blow- ing from the south-west, and it was low water. The life-boat found the vessel at 3.20 drifting broadside to wind and sea. She had broken away from another vessel which had taken her in tow. The life-boat sprayed oil on the sea, passed lines to the Island Commodore and towed her to Alderney, reaching her station again at 9.30.— Property Salvage Case..