Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 11.18 on the night of the 10th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground off St.

Combs, but at 11.50 she was seen to be under way. At midnight she anchored, but she was dangerously near the shore. At 12.5 early on the llth the life-boat The Duchess of Kent •was launched on service for the first time. She took a pilot with her.

There was a heavy swell and a light west-north-west breeze, and it was half an hour before high water. The life-boat found the motor vessel Audentia, of Bremen, put the pilot aboard and escorted the Audentia to Fraserburgh, arriving at 1.45.—Re- wards, £69*..