Islay, Hebrides.—At 7.50 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of June, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steamer King George V, of Glas- gow, on passage from the Clyde to Oban with thirty-nine people on board, was aground at Scarba Sound and needed help immediately. At 8.15 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a calm sea. There was a light variable breeze blowing and the tide was flooding. Visibility in the Sound of Islay was very bad with fog patches. Radar bearings passed by the motor vessel Loch Broom were of great help to the coxswain in enabling him to maintain full speed to the position of the grounded vessel. The life-boat found the King George V at 11.25 stranded on a ledge of rocks at Rhuda-Na-Una on the Island of Scarba. Her sister ship Loch Dunve- gan was alongside, and the life-boat stood by until high water, when she helped the Loch Dunvegan to refloat the King George V. The life-boat then returned to her moorings, arriving at 11.30 at night.—Rewards to the crew, £25 3s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £l 4s..