OCTOBER 29TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 5.30 A.M. the coast-guard reported signals of distress, and a few minutes later said that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.35 A.M. the Peterhead motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched. A N.N.E. gale was blowing, with heavy seas. After punching north through sleet and hail for about two hours the life-boat found H.M. trawler Flotta, with a crew of thirty-three.

She had been on escort duty, she was now high up on the beach, and her crew were being landed by the coastguard rocket lifesaving apparatus. The life-boat stood by until 10 A.M. and then returned to her station, which she reached at 11.15 A.M.- Rewards, £10 0s. 6d..