OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

The coastguard had under observation the Aberdeen fishing boat Fortunatus, as her engine had failed. AT 5.35 in the evening she made distress signals, and at 5.55 the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and a heavy ground swell running.

The life-boat found the fishing boat dragging her anchor and in great danger of drifting on to a dangerous reef, the Scours of Cruden.

She took her in tow. She used the fishing boat’s own ropes, and they parted six times, but the life-boat brought her into Peterhead at ten that night. - Property salvage case..