Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.55 on the night of the 17th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on Goat Island in Stornoway Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out in a smooth sea.

There was a strong north-westerly wind and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat found the trawler Zuider Kruis, of Scheveningen, with a crew of twelve. As the tide ebbed it was feared that the trawler might slip off the rocks, and the life-boat stood by.

At 3.30 the next morning the trawler refloated under her own power and proceeded to Stornoway, escorted by the life-boat. The boats reached Storno- way at 4.15. Rewards to the crew, £14..