SEPTEMBER 2ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 11.10 P.M. the coastguard reported two vessels on fire, one five miles S.E.

of Rattray Head and the other about ten miles E.S.E. from Peterhead. They belonged to a convoy which had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a calm sea. The motor life-boat JuliaPark Barry of Glasgow was launched at 11.20 P.M., and found the S.S. Lagosian, of Liverpool, burning fiercely. There was no response to the life-boat’s hail. The crew had taken to their boats, and thirty-two of them had been picked up by a naval vessel.

She went in search of a raft from the Lagosian and met the S.S.. Ashly, of West Hartlepool.

She had been attacked and damaged, but had been able to carry out temporary repairs and was on her way to Leith. The life-boat continued her search and picked up three boats and a raft, but all were empty. She returned to her station at 10 A.M. - Rewards, £13 3s. 6d..