SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WESTON - SUPERMARE SOMERSET. At 5.30 in the afternoon a message came from the Croyde coastguard, which he had received from the S.S.

Basiris, that a steamer was ashore on Weston Sands. A north-north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. No steamer could be seen and then it was found that the message should have been a ketch off Weston pier firing distress signals. She was later seen from the life-boathouse, south of Steepholme, heeling over and apparently ashore. The motor life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched at 6.25. The honorary secretary of the lifeboat station, Mr. R. J. S. Crowe, went with her. She found the auxiliary ketch Mary Stewart, of Greenock, at anchor. Her cargo had shifted, causing her to list, and her engine and sails were insufficient to make headway against the sea and wind. The coxswain assured the master that the ketch’s anchor was holding and the life-boat went to Barry to fetch a tug. The tug came and towed the ketch to Barry. Owing to the bad weather the life-boat sheltered in the River Axe until 7.45 next morning, and arrived back at her station at 8.55. - Rewards, £15 0s. 9d..