Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. —• At 8.10 in the evening on the 19th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that men had been seen waving from a small boat about five miles north by east of Peter- head, and the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow, was launched at 8.15.

A freshening southerly wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell.

The life-boat fovmd the fishing boat Ruby, of Banff, with a crew of two, on her way from Findochty to Buchan- haven. Her crew were, glad to be taken in tow as their engine had broken down and they had drifted a consider- able distance seawards on the ebbing tide. The life-boat towed her to Buchanhaven and then returned to Peterhead, arriving at 10.20. At 1.25 on the following morning the coast- guard reported an object with a light attached drifting about a mile east of Buchanhaven. The life-boat was launched again at 1.45, and found the Ruby two and a half miles north of Peterhead with no one on board. She towed her into Peterhead Harbour at 3.25.—Rewards: first service £6 2*. 6d., second service, £8 4s. 6d..