OCTOBER 2 3RD. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

At 11.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel five or six miles N.E. by N. of Buckie, burning what appeared to be distress signals, and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.55 A.M. A stiff W. by N. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. In three-quarters of an hour the lifeboat found the ex-Danish fishing boat Vesterland, with a crew of four. She was bound for Buckie from the fishing grounds, had broken down and, before the life-boat arrived, had been taken in tow by H.M. Drifter Archimedes.

The life-boat escorted them to Buckie harbour, arriving at 1.40 P.M. - Rewards, £7 18s.