Aith, Shetlands.—About 8.0 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the Lerwick harbour-master reported that the M.V. Tanga, of Rotterdam, had wirelessed that she was seeking shelter north-west of Shetland. She asked for a pilot to be sent out to her next morning. At 7.20 therefore the life- boat, The Rankin, was launched with a pilot, and in heavy seas, with a full south-easterly gale blowing, came up with the Tanga one mile north-west of Eshaness Lighthouse. The weather was too bad for the pilot to board her so he guided her from the life-boat until she reached smooth water. Then the life-boat put him on board, and he took the Tanga to an anchorage in Swarback Minn. He re-boarded the life-boat there, and returned with her to her station, arriving at 1.50 that afternoon.

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