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H.M. Trawler Alder

OCTOBER 22ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 2.5 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Kinnaird Head that a red flare had been seen off Cairnbulg Briggs, near the beacon, and at 2.30 A.M. the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched. A moderate W.N.W. wind was blowing, with heavy rain showers, but the sea was smooth. The life-boat found H.M. Trawler Alder stranded on the end of Cairnbulg Briggs. She anchored and veered down stern first to the trawler. Though the sea was smooth there was a good deal of broken water round the trawler. It was not easy to get alongside her, and the life-boat was smashed against her. Forty feet of the port-wale was splintered, ten of the iron stanchions bent, the cockpit fractured, and other damage done, but her seaworthiness was not affected. She rescued the Alder’s crew of twenty and returned to her station, arriving at 3.25 A.M. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..