Arbroath, Angus.—At about 5.20 P.M.

on the 3rd October, 1938, it was noticed that the S.S. Florence, of Liverpool, which had anchored earlier in the afternoon off the harbour entrance, was in difficulties. She was a vessel of 120 tons, carrying a crew of seven, and bound laden with coal from Bo'ness to Arbroath. The weather had suddenly got worse, and a southerlygale carried the Florence on to the rocks.

The motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched at 5.25 P.M. and the fishing boats Floreat II and Helen Cargill also put out. Efforts to tow the steamer off the rocks were unavailing and the fishing boats put back to harbour. The Florence was hard on the rocks, and her crew, seven in number, were rescued by the lifeboat, which also took off their belongings.

They were landed and handed over to the care of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. The life-boat was rehoused at 6.30 P.M.—Rewards, £15 11s. 6d..