On the night of March l6th, an American steamer, "Byron Darnton" went ashore on Sanda Island off the Mull of Kintyre. There the Campbeltown lite-boat found her next morning among the rocks. The life-boat had two men ot the island on board to pilot her. Her rudder had been damaged and her engine had broken down, but both had been temporarily repaired and - against the advice of the islanders - the coxswain took her alongside the steamer. Although she was pounding heavily on the rocks herself, she rescued the 54 men and women on board. Coxswain Duncan Newlands has been awarded a clasp to the bronze medal which he won in 1942, and the assistant motor mechanic, Duncan Black, the thanks on vellum..