JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.

- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued for several days, had blocked roads and railways, broken down telegraph and telephone wires, and made all communication by land impossible.

The first of these services was in the afternoon of 26th January when the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy took a supplyof food to the village of Pennan, ten miles along the coast. As the village was completely cut off it was not known what was happening there, but it was feared that the people would be short of food. The life-boat put out at 2 P.M. and returned at 5.30 P.M.

Bailie John Dunbar, at whose request the life-boat went, contributed £5 towards the expenses. - Rewards, £10 19s. 9d.

On the same day a representative of the Grampian Electricity Company asked if the life-boat could go to Aberdour, seven miles along the coast, to bring from there to Fraserburgh six of their electricians who were unable to come by road. They were needed as the electric plant in Fraserburgh had broken down and work was being held up at a munition factory. At eight o’clock next morning, the 27th, an official of the Ministry of Productions urgently made the same request, and at 10 A.M. the life-boat was launched. She arrived back with the electricians at 2 P.M. Expenses paid by the Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., who also made a donation of £4.

On 29th January the life-boat again took food to Pennan at the request of the county authority which said that the population were in dire need. The life-boat left at 10 A.M. and returned at 2 P.M. - Expenses paid by the County Council.

On 30th January the life-boat went to Pennan for the third time. This time she went at the request of Mr. Joseph Noble to take to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Noble, the news that four of the family had been killed in an air-raid on a village near Fraserburgh. The life-boat left at 11 A.M.

and returned at 2 P.M. Mr. Benjamin Noble gave £5 to the station to pay the rewards, and cost of fuel. - Rewards, £4 9s. 6d.

At 8.13 in the evening of the same day, 30th January, a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was in distress half a mile N.E. from Rosehearty, and her crew could be heard shouting for help. A second message said that she was ashore. The lifeboat put out at 8.40. A fresh breeze was then blowing, with a moderate sea and heavy showers of snow. At 9.10 the life-boat found the steam trawler Marlborough, of Grimsby.

She was bumping heavily on the ground and her crew had abandoned her. A morse message from the shore asked the life-boat to look for the ship’s boat, and while she was looking a second message came that the crew had landed safely in the boat. The lifeboat returned to the trawler, and put two men on board her. They found that she was making very little water and at 11 P.M. the lifeboat started to tow her off. In this she was successful, and she brought the trawler into harbour at 12.30 A.M. next day. - Rewards, £15 14s. 6d.

The last of this series of services was five days later, on 5th February. The roads were still impassable because of the snow, and at the request of the Provost of Fraserburgh the life-boat took a doctor to New Aberdour, seven miles along the coast, to attend an urgent case. The life-boat left at 4.50 P.M.

and arrived back at her station at 7.50 P.M.

- Rewards, £8 2s. 9d..