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REFLOATING A TRAWLER Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.20 in the morning of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard reported a trawler ashore south of Rattray Head, with a bad list to port. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched at 6.35 in a light southerly wind, with a slight swell and haze.

She found the steam trawler Astros, of Granton, on the outer rocks of Scotston Head and ran out an anchor for her.

An hour before high water the trawler hove herself off and made for Peterhead Harbour escorted by the life-boat, arriving there at 12.30 in the afternoon.

—Property Salvage- Case..