AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.10 the motor life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, and found the Norwegian motor tanker Athos, of Flekkefjord, on the Maen Piscar Rock, west-north-west of Rhoscolyn Head. She was leaking. The coxswain went aboard her, and it was decided to attempt to refloat her by working her engines as the tide rose. This was done, and she refloated. The life-boat escorted her to the South Stack, and then to the North Stack.

After they had passed the North Stack the fog became thicker, and as the Athos was steaming the faster of the two, the life-boat lost sight of her. She went towards the breakwater to pick her up there, but could not find her, so she returned to her station, arriving at 10.45. Soon after midnight the fog cleared and the Athos could be seen anchored near the breakwater, so the lifeboat was launched again, and brought her coxswain ashore. - Property salvage case..