SEPTEMBER 13TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE.

At eleven in the morning news was received that a man and two women who had left harbour the previous day in the auxiliary sailing boat Annie, were thought to be on Lady Isle.

Just before noon the boat was seen to be riding at anchor off the island, but at 1.10 she was seen to break adrift and the people were seen on the island. At 1.45 a request was received for the life-boat to take them off. A whole west-north-west gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at three o’clock and, with her boarding boat in tow, made for Lady Isle. The life-boat could not get near enough to the island to take the people off, and four life-boatmen rowed the boarding boat in. They had a very hard pull, and it was only with great difficulty that they took the people off the rocks. When the boarding boat returned to the life-boat there was considerable difficulty in getting the women safely on board her, for at times the seas nearly flung the boarding boat into the life-boat. The life-boat reached her station again at five o’clock. The Annie became a total wreck. - Rewards, £5 12s..