DECEMBER 19TH. ~ ABERDEEN. At 1.54 in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the steam trawler T. L.

Devlin, of Granton, had sprung a leak and needed help. A southerly gale was blowing, with heavy seas. The No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 2.35, and set out to find the trawler, which was making for Aberdeen, but was many miles away in a south-easterly direction. Radio communication was maintained between the life-boat, the trawler, and the shore, and at 7.30 the lifeboat found the trawler approximately twenty-two miles to the south-east of Aberdeen.

Her fish hold was flooded and her pumps choked, but, escorted by the life-boat, she reached Aberdeen about 9.20 that morning. - Rewards, £21 13s. 6d..