AUGUST 7TH. - ABERDEEN. At 10.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was burning red flares five miles away, south-east of Collieston. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.

The No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at eleven o’clock and at 12.30 found the motor fishing boat Harmonious II, with six aboard. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her in, arriving at 2.16 in the morning. - Property salvage case..