Longhope, Orkneys.—At 11.0 on the night of the 3rd of March, 1951, a life- boatman heard a siren and saw flares from a ship ashore at Brims Ness; andat 11.20 the life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched. There was a heavy swell with a moderate south-south-west breeze blowing. The ship, the trawler Lotos, of Aberdeen, had refloated, but she had a list and was making water.

The life-boat therefore escorted her to Scrabster and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.15 next morning.

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