MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat Lily Glen - Glasgow was launched at 4.20 P.M., but she found nothing and returned at 8.20 P.M News of the launching of the Girvan life-boat reached the Campbeltown station from the Portpatrick coastguard at 5.15 P.M., but another message said that radio bearings put the ship near the Mull of Kintyre, and the Campbeltown motor life-boat City of Glasgow was launched at 5.45 P.M. At 7.30 P.M. she found the S.S. Tanafjord, of Oslo, on Boiler Reef to the S.W. of Sanda Island. She was fast on the rocks. A wireless message told the life-boat that a tug was coming and she went to find her, escorted her to the steamer and ran ropes between the two during the night. A second tug had been summoned but at 10.52 the following morning the first tug got the steamer off, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 1.15 P.M She had been 18 1/2 hours at sea. - RewardsGirvan £17 0s. 3d. ; Campbeltown, £19 15s;. 6d..