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Spinaway

Buckle, Banffshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Spinaway of Lossiemouth was asking for assistance as she was leaking. At 9.5 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was launched in a heavy swell with a strong east-south-easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the Spinaway four miles north- west-by-west of Buckle with another fishing vessel standing by her. The life-boat escorted her to Buckie. arriving at 10.31. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s.; reward to the helper on shore, 17s..