OCTOBER 14TH. - ST. DAVID‘S, PEMBROKESHIRE,.

At 12.10 in the morning the naval base telephoned that a vessel was drifting in the direction of Skomer Island.

A west-north-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 1.15 and found the drifting vessel at two o’clock, one mile west of Skomer Island. She was the S.S. Trojan III, in ballast ; her engine had broken down.

At three o’clock a tug arrived, and at eight o’clock got a hawser aboard the S.S. Trojan III and took her in tow. The lifeboat then returned to her station, arriving at 9.15 that morning. - Rewards, £14 18s..