FEBRUARY 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 12.57 A . M . a message was received from the coastguard at Kinnaird Head, that a rocket had been seen a mile east of Rosehearty. A strong S.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea.

At 1.15 A.M.. the motor lifeboat, John and Charles Kennedy, was launched and found the Polish motor vessel Bug, of Gdynia, stranded on the east side of Rosehearty Harbour on the Inch Rocks. The lifeboat went alongside and took off six of the crew. The other six refused to leave their ship. At 6.25 A.M. the life-boat again went to the Bug, and stood by.

The vessel then began to submerge and the life-boat rescued the remaining six men. She returned to her station at 1.10 P.M. - Rewards, £21 16s..