SEPTEMBER 26TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 8. 10 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel on fire some eight miles north east from their station. A S.W. gale, veering to N.W., was blowing.

There was a moderate swell. The motor lifeboat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 8.25 P.M. She found that the vessel was the 8,000 ton steamer Port Denison, of London. She had been bombed by enemy aeroplanes and sunk. Admiralty vessels had picked up a number of survivors.

The life-boat joined in the search and found two more on a raft. It was then 10 P.M.

She continued to search and at two o’clock next morning a destroyer hailed her, and transferred to her eight of the rescued men.

The life-boat took them ashore, arriving at 3 A.M. An hour later she resumed the search as a number of men were still missing, but she found none and finally returned to her station at 10.15 A.M. - Rewards, £13 3s. 6d.