Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.35 on the morn- ing of the 1st of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Sethon, of Fleet- wood, was ashore on the Black Rocks in Islay Sound. The life-boat Char- lotte Elizabeth put out at seven o'clock in a rough sea. There was a fresh south-easterly breeze blowing, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat went alongside the trawler and rescued her crew of thirteen. She then returned to her station, arriving at 9.15. During the afternoon a motor launch took the crew back to their vessel to attempt to refloat her. There were heavy seas around the Black Rocks, and the motor launch was un- able to stand by the trawler. At 4.55 therefore the life-boat put out again, to bring the Sethon'''s crew ashore. She arrived back at her moorings at 6.25.

First service: rewards to the crew, £7 10,?.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 4*. Second service: rewards to the crew, £7 10,9.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 4s..