About 9.30 P.M.

on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation of driving from her anchors.

The Life-boat Charlotte was therefore launched, and proceeded out of harbour and succeeded in boarding the schooner soon after 10 o'clock P.M. A hard gale was blowing at this time from N.N.E., a direction from which the wind is severely felt at Fraserburgh and the adjacent coast.

The Life-boat's crew found the dis- tressed vessel to be the Villager, of Inver- ness, bound from Euncorn to Fraserburgh with a cargo of salt. The leakage of the vessel, and her dangerous position in the bay, appeared at that time to offer the crew only the alternatives of their vtssel going to pieces on the shore by parting her cables, or foundering at her anchors.

The Life-boat succeeded in getting them on board in safety, and returned with the 5 rescued men about 11.30 P.M..