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The Boy

JUNE 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 4.45 P.M. a message was received that a Peterhead motor boat, the Boy, with two on board, had not returned, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5 P.M. A fresh S.S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell, and there was fog. The life-boat went to the north, in which direction the missing boat had last been seen, and two miles away found the motor boat. Her engine had failed. She took the boat in tow and arrivedback at Peterhead at 6.15 P.M. - Rewards £5 14s. 6d..