SEPTEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore a mile north of Peterhead, making signals of distress. There was a dense fog, with a light south-east wind and a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 6.40 and found the Peterhead steam drifter Whitehill hard aground and listing to port. She was returning from the fishing grounds with herrings.

Her crew of ten would not leave her, and the life-boat returned to get the services of a fishing boat and an anchor. She then ran out the anchor while the fishing boat got ropes aboard the Whitehill, ready to tow. But when the tide made the drifter floated off.

She was leaking badly, but, with the life-boat in attendance, she reached harbour under her own power at ten o’clock. - Property salvage case.