JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes past two the motor life-boat Good Hope was launched. A light N.E. wind was blowing, and the sea was calm. At 3.45 the life-boat found the S.S. Queensbury, of London, a vessel of nearly 4,000 tons, with a crew of about 35. She had been set on fire and was blazing from stem to stern. Two coasters had taken off the crew, and one of them had gone on her way, but the other was still there, and the life-boat took aboard from her twelve rescued men, two of whom were badly injured. She brought them ashore, arriving at 6 A.M., and the men were sent straight to hospital, but one of them died later.

Meanwhile the Gourdon life-boat station had been told by the coastguard at 1.40 in the morning that a vessel was on fire about eight miles S.E. by E. from Gourdon, and asthe life-boat was being overhauled the motor boat Elizabeth, manned by a crew of seven, put out. She found the Montrose life-boat taking off the survivors and so she returned to Gourdon. - Rewards : Montrose, £13 10s.; rewards to Gourdon.

(See Gourdon, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 97.).