Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.^At 5.45 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Amethyst, of Buckie, which had a crew of nine, had run ashore on Trodday Island at the north end of Skye. Five of her crew had gone ashore and were marooned on the island. At 6.35 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out.

The sea was rough, there was a fresh south-westerly gale, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat reached Trod- day at 10.45 and with difficulty went alongside a ledge of rocks. Using ropes, the life-boat crew helped the fishermen into the life-boat and then put them aboard the Amethyst. The fishing boat made for Gairloch, es- corted by another fishing boat, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3.5.—Rewards to the crew, £22 5s..