Early on the morning of the 27th September the Belhelvie coastguards reported that a vessel ashore one mile north of the watch-house was making distress signals. A moderate S.S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather was thick. The pulling and sailing life-boat John and Robert C. Mercer was taken by tractor along the beach at 4.5 A.M., and found the steam trawler Ebor Abbey, of Aber- deen. She carried a crew of nine, and was on her way home from the fishing grounds. She had got inside the outer bank and was right up on the beach.

A line was thrown ashore from the trawler, and five of her crew were landed by means of the life-boat's breeches-buoy. The remaining four stayed on board and, as the trawler was not in immediate danger, the life- boat was taken back to her station without being launched. The trawler was towed off by tugs on the next high tide. The Aberdeen motor life- boat Emma Constance was also launched, but her services were not required.—Rewards : Newburgh, £15 145. 6d.; Aberdeen, £6 7,5. 6d..