SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard reported that a vessel had sunk. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor lifeboat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 3 A.M. She cruised about for over two hours, and at 5.20 A.M. found a boat with twenty-four men on board. They belonged to the S.S. Gannet, of London, which had been bombed from the air, and they had abandoned her. The life-boat took them on board and landed them at 6.30 A.M. Later the life-boat took the captain and some of his crew back to their ship and then stood by while tugs towed her to Peterhead Bay.

She returned to her station at 11 A.MRewards, £14 8s. 6d..