SEPTEMBER 3RD. - SWANAGE, DORSET.

At 7.30 P.M. it was learned from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore under St. Albans Head. The sea was calm, but there was a very thick fog. The motor lifeboat Thomas Markby was launched at 8.15 P.M., and at 9 P.M. found the armed trawler Olvina. She had a crew of twentyfour, and she asked the life-boat to stand by.

The life-boat stood by all night, and ran out a kedge and wire from the trawler. Salvage pumps then arrived, the holes in the trawler were plugged and the water pumped out, and she refloated on the high tide on Friday morning. Escorted by the life-boat she went to Portland under her own steam, and the life-boat went back to her station, arriving at 4 P.M. on the 5th. She had been out for forty-four hours. - Rewards, £20 16s.