MAY 19TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.

At midnight on the 18th the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Stornoway coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties, with her engine broken down. Her position was given as Barra Head Sound, on the Mingulay Island side. A fresh north-east wind, with squalls, was blowing. The sea was rough. The motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 12.40, but it was only after several hours of searching that she found the lobster motor fishing boat St. Mary’s, of Vatersay, in a cove on the south-south-east side of Bernera Island. It was then six o’clock in the morning. The lifeboat towed her to Vatersay, returning to her station at 9.45. - Rewards, £14 14s. 6d..