Nov. 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND HEBRIDES. At 11.10 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Calavay Island, near Eriskay. A southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.35 A.M.

the motor life-boat Lloyd’s was launched and found the Admiralty oil tanker Brichol ashore on the most southerly point of South Uist Island. A destroyer and a tug were standing by. The life-boat transferred the crew of the oil-tanker to the destroyer and returned to her station at 8.5 P.M. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d.