OCTOBER 23RD. - ABERDEEN. At 6.15 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at the request of the naval authorities to go to a vessel ten miles east of Aberdeen. A moderate southerly wind was blowing, the sea was smooth.

At 7.30 she found the S.S. Keilehaven, of Rotterdam, fully laden, but with no one on board. She spoke a naval trawler and learned that the forty-six men who had been on board the steamer had abandoned her and were now on board the American ship Henry Austin, which was close by. The life-boat went to the Henry Austin and took on board forty of the crew of the Keilehaven. She put back the captain and eleven others on their own ship, and landed the remaining twenty-eight at Aberdeen at 10.41 that morning. The American steamer resumed her voyage and the Keilehaven was taken in tow by a minesweeper until a tug arrived. - Rewards, £11 17s..