Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the life-boat Thomas Markby was launched. The trawler Buchans II, of Aberdeen, also put out.

The sea was rough, with a strong north-westerly breeze' blowing. The life-boat found the Speedwell, with a crew of six, broken down, and stood by her until the trawler arrived. The life-boat then helped the trawler to take her in tow and escorted them to Fraserburgh, arriving at seven o'clock that night. The life-boat made for her station a little later, but as the weather was too bad for her to enter White- hills Harbour she went to MacDuff which she reached at 1.30 the next morning. She was taken back to her station that afternoon. — Rewards, £46 6s..