JANUARY 5TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 12.50 A.M. news was received through the coastguard that an S.O.S. had been sent out by the Union Castle Line steamer Rothesay Castle. She was a vessel of over 7,000 tons and bound from New York to Glasgow. The life-boat crew were assembled and further information awaited.

At 3.5 A.M. the Rothesay Castle’s position was given as five miles N.W. of Coull Point on the west coast of Islay, and the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out. The weather was thick and the sea moderate, with a S.E. wind blowing. In the absence of lights the life-boat stood out from the shore until daylight, and eventually found the steamer, at 9.15 next morning, several miles north of the position given. She was on a sunken reef. The crew would not leave her, and the life-boat stood by throughout the day and the next night. In the meantime a tug arrived and also stood by. On the morning of the 6th the life-boat took off fourteen of the crew of the steamer and put them on the tug. Towards noon, as the weather was moderating and the remainder of the crew had decided to stay on board, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 3 P.M. She had been at sea for thirty-six hours. The remainder of the crew of the Rothesay Castle were taken off by the tug on the following day. - Rewards, £44 1s.