The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 5.15 P.M. on the 9th February, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that the local fishing boat Boy Bob had gone out early that day to haul her lines off Gardenstown, and had not returned.

She carried a crew of three. A moderate N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea and rain showers. When the life-boat was between Sandhaven and Rosehearty a light was seen, and the Boy Bob was found with her com- pass and deck fittings carried away by the heavy seas, and her crew at the pumps. The life-boat took the boat and the three men safely back to Fraserburgh, arriving there shortly after 6 P.M. But for her help the boat and her crew would have been lost.— Rewards, £15 9s..