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The Whaler Brodrene Saevik

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the whaler Brodrene Sae- vik of Alesund, Norway, had broken down with engine trouble three miles east of Noss Head. At 2.50 the life- boat City of Edinburgh was launched in calm weather and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the whaler with a crew of six and took her in tow to Wick, which was reached at 5.30. Rewards to the crew, £4. 7s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £2. 19s..