Wick, Caithness-shire. At 5.29 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the s.s. Stellatus of Helsingborg, Sweden, was ashore near Freswick Bay but was in no immediate danger. At 5.50 the vessel broadcast a distress message, and the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 6.30.

It was just after high water. The weather was fine with a moderate south-easterly breeze blowing and a swell. The life-boat found the steamer two and a half miles south of Dun- cansby Head and stood by. At noon twelve men were taken off at the captain's request, and the life-boat landed them at Wick at 2.30. She returned to the Stellatus at 6.10. By then the captain had decided to abandon his ship, and the remaining fourteen men on board were rescued.

The life-boat reached Wick at 7.30.

Rewards to the crew, £38 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 14s..