Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of De- cember, 1948, the harbour watchman telephoned that a fishing vessel was burning flares about four miles east of Kinnaird Head, and at 10.20, in the charge of Captain R. T. Duthie, joint honorary secretary, the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched.

The weather was calm. The life-boat found the local motor fishing boat Bloom with her engine broken down and a crew of eight, and towed her to harbour, arriving at 11.30.—Property salvage case..