Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 5th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall told the honorary secretary that a distress message had been sent from a vessel in the Westray Firth. While the life-boat crew were being assembled further enquiries were made, and the coast- guard reported that flares had been seen on the west side of the Island of Westray. At 2.35 the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman put out in a moderate sea, with a moderate south- westerly wind blowing and an ebb tide.

She made for the position in heavy rain squalls and found the fishing vessel Tanana of Grimsby stranded on Wart Holm. Her crew of six were ashore on the rocks close by. The coxswain, with the aid of the searchlight, brought the life-boat alongside the rocks, and the six men scrambled aboard her.

They were transferred to the fishing vessel Capella, which was close at hand, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 7.5 The Tanana became a total wreck. Rewards to the crew, £16 5s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..