AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had a crew of forty who had put off in two boats, and these sixteen men had been picked up after being in their boat for fifty-five hours.

As there were no means of looking after the rescued men at Tobermory, and as no other boat was available, the motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose was launched at 5.40 P.M. in a N.W. wind, with a moderate sea, and took them to Oban, where she arrived at 8.50 P.M.

She reached her station again at 12.30 A.M. next morning. - Rewards, £8 3s. 6d.