FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of January 27th, 1947, a fishing boat was seen making distress signals near the Kirk Rocks in Hoy Sound. The breeze, from the south- west, was light, but there was a heavy ground swell. The motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched at 4.37, and found the fishing boat Bertha Jane, of Kirkwall, with three men on board.

Her fishing line had fouled her propeller and she had anchored in a dangerous position. The life-boat towed her in, arriving back at her station at 6.15 P.M.

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