FEBRUARY 8TH. - PORTASKAIG ARGYLLSHIRE. At 4.35 A.M. the Southend coastguard informed the life-boat station that a vessel was in distress south of Colonsay.

A strong southerly wind was blowing, and it was dark and foggy. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 6.40 A.M., and with the help of her radio telephone found the vessel two miles west of Ardskenish Point.

She was the S.S. G. MacLaren., of Cardiff, of about 7,000 tons, disabled by the loss of her rudder and propeller. She was at anchor.

The life-boat stood by until a tug arrived, and took the steamer in tow, and she piloted them into deep water, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 8.15 P.M.

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