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Glencloy

Stornoway, Hebrides. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Glencloy of Glasgow, bound for Stornoway, needed help as she had engine trouble. Her position was then about eight miles south-east of Storno- way. At 3.5 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings in a south-westerly gale. The sea was rough and the tide half flood. Shortly afterwards a message was received that the Glencloy had been taken in tow by the fishing cruiser Brenda. The life- boat escorted the vessels to harbour and reached her station at 5.50. Re- wards to the crew, £10 10s..