Aberdeen. On the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the steam trawler Luffness, of Granton, went aground at the north pier. She was badly holed and her crew had decided to leave her.

At 10.45 the life-boat Hilton Briggs put out in a slight sea, with a gentle westerly breeze blowing and an ebb tide.

The life-boat reached the trawler and found that her crew of thirteen had been taken off by a pilot cutter and a tug.

After running extra mooring lines from the Luffness to the pier the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 11.40. Rewards to the crew, £5 ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..