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Red Lancer

Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Red Lancer, with a crew of nineteen, was ashore on the Reef Rocks at the entrance to Stornoway harbour. At nine o'clock the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out in a choppy sea. There was a moder- ate northerly breeze and the tide was flooding. The life-boat reached the position, towed the Red Lancer into deeper water, and escorted her to the pier, which was reached at 10.15.— Property Salvage Case..