Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At two o'clock on the morning of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore five miles north of Portpatrick.

The life-boat Jeanie Speirs put out at 2.20 in a slight sea. There was no wind and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the trawler Graziella of Etel aground and holed one mile north of Galdenoch. The decks of the trawler were awash, and her crew of eight, six of whom had taken to a small boat, were taken aboard the life-boat. With the life-boat's bowman at her wheel the Graziella was taken in tow. The Royal Army Service Corps depot at Cairn- ryan sent out a fire float to pump water out of the trawler while she was in tow, and she was eventually beached at Cairnryan at 8.35. The life-boat re- fuelled and her crew had some food before returning to their station, which was reached at three o'clock in the afternoon. Property salvage case..