OCT. 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND ABERDEEN.

At 11.15 P.M. a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray Head, and that two vessels were standing by.

A light easterly breeze was blowing, but there was a heavy ground swell. At 11.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched. the found the S.S. Cairnmona, of Newcastle, bound from Montreal to Leith.

The steamer had been sunk by enemy action and had gone down in less than twenty minutes. Three of her crew had been killed and the remainder, forty-two in number, had taken to the boats, and had been picked up by the trawler Strathlossie. They were transferred to the life-boat and landed at Peterhead.

The life-boat returned to her station at 1.15 A.M The Aberdeen station had also been informed.

As it knew that Peterhead had launched, its crew stood by. At 1.30 next morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. She searched bat found nothing, and putting into Peterhead learnt their that the forty-two survivors had been landed. She returned to her station at 10.42 A.M. - Rewards : Peterhead, £12 19s. ; Aberdeen, £23 5s. 6d..