Troon, Ayrshire.—At 9.46 on the night of the 9th of April, 1956, the Port- patrick coastguard reported that the S.S. Akka, of Gothenburg, had wire- lessed that she had gone aground on the Gantock Rocks, Dunoon, and that she was sinking. At 10.10 the life- boat James and Barbara Aitken put out. She made for the position in a moderate sea, with a light west-south- west breeze blowing and a flooding tide. She made a search, in which a helicopter also took part at dawn, but found only two masts sticking up out of the water and one boat turned up- side down. No survivors were found, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 9.30. Of the steamer's crew of thirty-three, twenty- seven were rescued by other ships, but six lost their lives.—Rewards to the crew, £22 5,5..