OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 4.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a red flare near Scotstoun Head had been reported from Rattray. Half an hour later it was reported that six red flares had been seen, and that permission had been received from the naval base for the life-boat to be launched. As the crew were assembling a third message came that the flares were south of Rattray Lighthouse.

At 4.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow, was launched.

A N.W. gale was blowing and the sea was choppy. The life-boat reached the steam trawler Leo, of Grimsby, stranded on the sands. She was lying in six feet of water, and as her crew were in no immediate danger the life-boat stood by, waiting for the tideto rise. At eight o’clock, an hour after high water, the life-boat made fast to the trawler, and after three hours of hauling succeeded in getting her afloat. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 11.30 A.M.

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