FEBRUARY MEETING PORT WEMYSS, ISLAY. The S.S. Agate, laden with coal and bound from Poole to Belfast, lost touch with her convoy during thick weather and ran ashore at Carn Point on the west coast of Islay at 4.30 in the morning of the 30th December, 1940. The captain and his crew of fourteen abandoned ship and made along the coast of Islay in the ship’s boat. At 10 o’clock the boat, which was three miles off shore, was seen from Port Wemyss, and three men put off in a motor boat. They found the men in the ship’s boat very exhausted, and towed their boat through a heavy swell into smooth water.

There they took the most exhausted men into their own boat and guided the remainder in the ship’s boat to the shore. The coast at this place is treacherous, with swift tides, and it is almost certain that the shipwrecked men would not have reached safety without help. - Rewards, £2 17s.

ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At mid-day on the 12th January, 1941, the coastguard reported two rafts adrift off Ilfracombe, and the honorary secretary of the life-boat station sent off three life-boatmen in a motor boat.

They brought in both rafts. At 10.15 next morning they put off again and found and towed in a third raft. No men, or bodies, were found. - Rewards, £3 15s. and 15s. for fuel used.

PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The fishing boat Snowdrop, of Aberystwyth, had put in at Porthdinllaen to await the flood tide and, owing to bad weather, had remained there. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy short sea. On the evening of the 14th January, 1941, shouts were heard from her, and three men went out in a rowing boat to find that the Snowdrop was drifting towards the rocks. They got out another anchor, and then brought ashore the crew of two. Later, as the flood tide made and the moon came out, it was seen that the Snowdrop was again drifting, and two men, and the Snowdrop’s own crew, relaunched the rowing boat, warped the Snowdrop out of danger and brought her into harbour safely.- Rewards, £1 10s.