Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor iishing vessel Amber Queen, which had a crew of five, had wirelessed that she had broken down and needed help twelve miles north- north-west of Holborn Head. At 3.10 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched.

The sea was rough, and a strong- north- easterly breeze was blowing. The life- boat made for the position in a flooding tide and found that the motor fishing vessel Sealgair had also answered the distress call. The Sealgair took the Amber Queen in tow and made for Scrabster, escorted by the life-boat.

They reached Scrabster at nine o'clock.

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