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Jeannie

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coxswain received a message that a fishing boat had been in collision with the trawler Strathdon off Peter- head. The motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf was trying to find her in dense fog. At 7.33 it was learnt that the Wave Sheaf had found the boat, which was the motor fishing vessel Jeannie.

She took her in tow The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 7.49 in a moderate sea.

There were light airs and an ebb tide.

The life-boat escorted the Wave Sheaf and the Jeannie to harbour, which was reached at 8.24. Rewards to the crew, £7 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 8s..