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The S.S. Cantick Head

FEBRUARY 11TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.35 in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a vessel at sea was signalling by morse lamp, and a few minutes later that the signal was for a doctor. The life-boat John and Charles Kennedy put out at 11.12 P.M., with a doctor on board, and Captain A. Stephen, the honorary secretary of the station. A light southerly wind was blowing, and the sea was calm. The life-boat found the vessel about a mile east of Fraserburgh.

She was the S.S. Cantick Head, of Leith. The doctor and Captain Stephen went on board and found that the steamer had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes when thirty miles north of Fraserburgh and that her captain had been badly wounded by bullets. The steamer came into Fraserburgh, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 12.50 next morning.- Rewards, £14 9s. 6d.