APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The life-boat reached the Erne at midnight, and found that she had been taken in tow by another destroyer. They were making for Fraserburgh Harbour. The lifeboat put one of her crew on board the Erne and stood by to give help if it were needed. When they were one and a half miles off Fraserburgh a tug came up and took H.M.S. Erne in tow for Peterhead. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 1.50 A.M.

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