OCTOBER 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At 8.8 P.M. the London fish c a r r i e r B e l l o n a I I , bound from Hull to Iceland, was bombed by a German aeroplane and set on fire when about four and a half miles E.S.E. of Gourdon. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, with a swell running.

The motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched at 8.15 P.M., and reached the blazing steamer thirty-five minutes later. She took ten men off the burning ship, and eight from a Dutch vessel, which had picked them up from a small boat. Ten were lost. Of the crew of twenty-eight, nine were British, of whom five were rescued, and the other nineteen men were Danes. The life-boat returned to Gourdon at 9.45 P.M. - Rewards, £31 6s..