MARCH 15TH. - ABERDEEN. At 6.25 in the evening information came from the flag officer in charge at Aberdeen, through the coastguard, that H.M. Corvette Hyderbad had gone aground on the north breakwater in Navigation Channel and the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 6.40. A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The lifeboat stood by the corvette, while the steam tug Bruno, with a crew of ten, came out to try and tow her off, but she too went aground, on the west side of the old south breakwater.

It was then 8.40. Leaving the Hyderbad the life-boat got a line from the Bruno, which was rolling and pounding heavily in the surf, and started to tow her off. At 9.15 the tug refloated. She came off quickly and struck the life-boat, damaging her port quarter.

The tug had lost her rudder and the life-boat towed her to her berth. Meanwhile, at 9.20, the Hyderbad herself had refloated and returned to her berth. The life-boat got back to her station at eleven o’clock. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..