JUNE 21ST. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.

At 7.30 in the morning a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the Little Skerry. A moderate south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and dense fog. At 8.12 the motor lifeboat Thomas McCunn was launched, and at 9.30 found the S.S. Fort La Prairie, of London, ashore on the south side of the Little Skerry.

She stood by all day and until high water, about eleven at night. As the Fort La Prairie was then rolling badly and had water in three holds, her captain decided to abandon her. The life-boat took off the whole crew of 52, put some of them on board another ship, which was standing by, and took the remainder to Longhope, where she arrived at 12.30 next morning. - Rewards, £11 15s. 6d..