Petertead, Aberdeenshire. — At 2.25 P.M. on the 13th July, 1939, a message was received from the Rattray Head coastguard, through the Peterhead coastguard, stating that a steam drifter was ashore at Rattray Head.

A light E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, and the visibility was very poor. The new motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched at 2.30 P.M. She found the steam drifter Ocean Harvest of Great Yarmouth, with a crew of ten and 100 crans of herrings on board. She was rolling, and striking very heavily on her port side. The life-boat stood by the drifter until about 5 P.M. when it was evident that she would not refloat with the flood tide. The life-boat then took aboard her crew, with their personal belongings, and returned to her station at 6.30 P.M.—Rewards, £4 11*..