HELPLESS WITH BROKEN RUDDER Peterhead, Aberdeenihire.—At about 4.30 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1947, the coastguard re- ported that a vessel was burning flares three miles south-east by east of the coastguard station, and the motor life- boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched at 4.45 in a strong south- south-east breeze, with a heavy swell.

She found the motor fishing boat Mark H. Leach, of Inverness, bound for Aberdeen with a crew of five, two and a half miles east by north of Peterhead, with her rudder broken.- With diffi- culty the life-boat took her in tow and, although the rope parted three times, towed her to the harbour, arriving back at her station at 6.35 that morning.— Property Salvage Case..