Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.—4th Octo- ber, 1939. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life- boat Robert and Ellen Robson was taken by tractor to the scene and launched at 9.45 P.M. A S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy surf. The Board of Trade life-saving rocket apparatus had also arrived and a line was fired across the trawler. The life-boat almost reached the trawler when she grounded on a sandbank, and a sea swept her past. Two oars were broken and the rocket line fouled the crew and oars.

After getting clear, the crew tried to pull back to the trawler, but without success, and ran the life-boat on the beach. The coastguard then fired an- other line across the trawler and landed her crew by breeches buoy. Mean- while, the life-boat had been replaced on her carriage, stood by until the rescue had been completed, and then returned to her station, arriving at 3 A.M.—Rewards, £32 7s..