MARCH 8TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At 4.37 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a rocket had been fired by a vessel ashore on the west side of Cairnbulg Beacon. She was the Faroese motor vessel Mjoanes, carrying a crew of nine and bound for Aberdeen laden with 150 tons of fish. The weather was fine, with a light south-west wind, and the sea was smooth.

At 5.10 the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy was launched, and reached the Mjoanes fifteen minutes later. She found her leaking badly and in need of a motor pump.

Leaving two life-boatmen on board to help with the hand-pump, she returned to harbour and brought out a pump, which she put on board. More life-boatmen also went on board to help with the hand-pump. At 8.50 the Mjoanes floated. The life-boat helped her off the reef and took her to Fraserburgh, arriving at 9.25 that morning. - Property salvage case..