Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 7.28 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Euclase, of Granton, had run ashore at Noss Head in dense fog. At 7.50 the life- boat City of Edinburgh was launched.

The sea was moderate, there was a fresh south-south-east breeze, and it was one hour before low water. The trawler later wirelessed that she was near Basker Rock, but at 9.30 the life-boat found her half a mile north of Skirza Head with a motor boat and another trawler near by. At the skipper's request the life-boat took a line from the Euclase to the motorboat, which passed it to the other trawler, but the line parted. The life-boat then rescued ten of the crew of the Euclase, leaving the skipper and chief engineer on board. The skipper asked the life-boat to stand by his ship until high water, but the weather worsened, and at 2.15 the skipper asked the life-boat to take off himself and his engineer. The life-boat rescued them and then returned to her station, arriving at 5.20. The Euclase became a total wreck.—Rewards to the crew, £19 Is.; rewards to the helpers on shore, etc., £2 9s..