Aberdeen.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 6th of November, 1951, the city police telephoned for help in rescuing people who were trapped by flood water at a caravan camp on the banks of the River Dee at Milltimber. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with very heavy rain, and the water had reached a height of eight feet. The No. 2 life-boat, George and Elizabeth Gow, left her house at 1.15, by road, and was launched into the flood water near the Mill Inn at Milltimber, but floating hay and bushes fouled her propeller, and she had to be beached again. The water had now stopped rising and the life-boatmen waited for daybreak. By then the floods had started to fall and a salmon coble was sent from Aberdeen. It arrived at Millport at nine o'clock and the life- boatmen and launchers went out in her. By 1.0 in the afternoon they had helped thirty-one people to safety.

It was now possible to wade and the men carried the four remaining people from a farmhouse to a lorry. The life-boat was then taken back to Aberdeen and was re-housed at seven o'clock that night.—Rewards, £49 12s. 6d..