JULY 27TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

The fishing boat May Lily was overdue No news about her could be obtained and at three in the afternoon a request was made for aeroplanes to search.

They returned at 4.15. They had seen the May Lily showing distress signals, and gave her position. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The life-boat crew had been standing ready, and at 4.25 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched. Unfortunately, a wrong position had been given and she spent the night in a fruitless search. At dawn the aircraft again went out and eventually guided the life-boat to the May Lily. She was then 24 miles south-east-by-east of Peterhead. Her engines had broken down and her nets could not be pulled in, but just as the life-boat had passed ropes aboard her, her engineer started her engines again, and to help save as much of her gear as possible, some of the life-boat’s crew went on board her. The life-boat then returned to her station, the May Lily following under her own power. They arrived at ten o’clock next morning. - Rewards, £17 8s.