Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—A15.10 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1955, the Stornoway coastguard re- ported that the S.S. Graigaur, of Cardiff, which had a crew of thirty- four, had gone aground east of Barra Head and needed a tug. Forty min- utes later it was reported that the steamer was holed and making water, and at 7.15 the life-boat Lloyd's put out. The sea was calm, and there was a light south-south-west breeze. The life-boat reached the Graigaur an hour and a half later and remained with her until she refloated on the rising tide.

The life-boat then guided her clear and escorted her to Vatersay Bay, where she was beached. The life-boat reached her station again at three o'clock in the afternoon. The owners made a gift to the life-boat crew.— Rewards to the crew, £15 17s.; reward to the helper on shore, 19s..