MARCH 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At 10.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel burning flares one and a half miles N.W. by W., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.30. A strong southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea and snow showers. About five miles N.W. of Buckie the life-boat found the steam drifters Morning Rays, of Fraserburgh, and Amity, of Buckie. The Morning Rays had been towing the Amity, which had no one on board, but the rope had fouled her propeller, and the two trawlers were drifting helplessly.

At the request of the skipper of the Morning Rays the life-boat found the steam trawler Copieux, and she took both drifters in tow while the life-boat stood by. Then the tow rope between the two drifters broke and came clear of the Morning Rays’ propeller, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 2 A.M. - Rewards, £15 9s..