JUNE 13TH. - ABERDEEN. A message was received from the Gregness coastguard that a vessel was on fire seven miles from Greyness, and at 1.30 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. A little northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat found the S.S. Dalemoor, of London. She had been bombed and was burning. The lifeboat signalled to H.M. Corvette J.115, learned from her that thirty-nine of the crew had been picked up, and was asked to search for further survivors. At 3.30 A.M. a naval tug arrived, went alongside the Dalemoor, which was still burning fiercely, and put three men on board to make fast a tow line. Meanwhile the life-boat had searched, but found no one. At 3.50 A.M. the tug asked the lifeboat to pass a line between her and the steamer. This the lifeboat did, took off the three men who had been put on board the Dalemoor, and returned them to the tug.

She then continued her search until 6 A.M.

The tugs were now using their fire hoses on the Dalemoor, and as they no longer needed her help, the life-boat returned to her station at 7.30 A.M. - Rewards, £12 8s..