OCTOBER 5TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.

At 3.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel on the rocks half a mile east of the harbour. The weather was fine with a smooth sea, but there was fog.

At four o’clock the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched and found the motor vessel Lindy, of Kopervik, Norway, loaded with fish for Aberdeen, with a crew of six.

The tide was ebbing and, as nothing could he done until it rose, the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 5.15. At midnight she again put out, stood by the Lindy, and then towed from her one of her boats carrying an anchor and wire. The boat dropped the anchor, and at two o’clock next morning the Lindy refloated. The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at 2.20 that morning.- Rewards, £53 9s..