SEPTEMBER 4TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 6.55 A.M. the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S.. Laird’s Castle, of Glasgow, had been in collision. Her position was given as about one mile west of Sanda Island. A moderate S. breeze was blowing. The sea was calm.

There was thick fog. The motor life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 7.30 A.M., and going to the west of Sanda Island found the trawler Iago and the Dutch motor ship Mr. Linthorst Homan ashore on a reef. With the help of a kedge anchor which the lifeboat ran out the trawler was refloated. The Dutch vessel declined aid, and later she refloated. At 10.5 A.M. information came from Portpatrick by wireless that the position of the Laird’s Castle was not a mile west of Sanda Island, but seven miles S.S.E. The lifeboat went there, but found only wreckage.

The crew of the steamer had already been rescued. The life-boat returned to her station at 4 P.M. - Rewards, £3 2s. 6d. ; and property salvage case.