At 12.20 A.M. on 3rd February, during a very thick fog, word was received that a vessel was making signals of distress, and the Motor Life-boat H. C. J. was launched. The Hull trawler Arragonite, with a crew of fifteen on board, was found on the rocky shore of Murkle Bay, having stranded while homeward bound from the Faroes laden with fish. At her master's request the Life-boat ran out an anchor for her, and as the tide rose the trawler was able to haul herself off.

A Life-boatman was then put on board to pilot her clear of the surrounding shoals. But for the help given by the Life-boat Crew it is probable that the vessel would have been washed further in shore by the flood tide and swell and would have become a wreck.—Property Salvage Case..