JANUARY 21ST. - PORTASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At about 10.10 P.M. the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay. The night was dark, with an easterly gale and a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 10.50 P.M., and at 11.30 P.M. found the trawler Thomas Deas, of Milford Haven. She was laden with fish, and had a crew of fourteen. Another trawler arrived, and the life-boat passed a tow line to her, but it parted. The weather was too severe for the second trawler to make another attempt at a tow and she went on her way.

The life-boat stood by until day-break, and then helped the Thomas Deas to get out a kedge anchor. With this she pulled herself off on the high tide. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.5 P.M. on the 22nd January. The Fleetwood Steam Trawlers’ Mutual Insurance Association made a gift of £50 to the life-boat crew, who gave £4 of it to the Institution. - Rewards, £21 17s. 6d.