MARCH 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.51 in the afternoon information came from the naval authorities that H.M. Rescue Tug Adept, with a crew of thirty, was aground on Paterson’s Rock, east of Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 2.16. The weather was calm, but there was a bank of fog, and the tide race was raising a very rough sea at Paterson’s Rock. The tug had struck the rock at high water and was right on top of it. Another tug had been sent for, and the life-boat stood by, waiting for her, but as the tide ebbed the Adept seemed in danger of slipping off at any moment, so the life-boat rescued her crew and then put them on board the tug Zwarte Zee which had now arrived.

The tug and the life-boat then tried, without success, to tow off the Adept. The fog now became dense, and the tug and the life-boat both anchored. They remained there through the night, intending to make another attempt in daylight. By morning the weather had cleared, but as the life-boat then learned that a salvage ship was on her way she returned to her station, towing a boat from the Adept with some gear in it. She reached her station again at 11.10 in the morning of the 18th, having been out for 21 hours. This was her second long service, with only a day between them. - Rewards, £26 8s. 6d..