NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.

The trawler was being towed in by a tug from the strand at Rattray Head, and appeared to be sinking. At 9.20 another message came to say that the trawler was two miles east of Peterhead, and at 9.30 a third message said that she was off Buchan Ness., and that the life-boat should go out immediately. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 9.35, and on her way out met the tug going towards the harbour. When she got to the position given off Buchan Ness she saw H.M. Trawler Filey Bay, who told her that the Flotta had sunk, that she herself had two members of the crew and one dead man on board, and that the remainder of the crew were on the tug.

The life-boat overtook the tug, took on board the nine men of the Flotta’s crew and landedthem at Peterhead at midnight. - Rewards, £13 3s. 6d..