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Honey Bee

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.40 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Honey Bee of Peterhead was leaking badly and in danger of sinking off Buchan Ness. At 8.5 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a light south-south-easterly wind. The sea was calm, and it was two hours after low water. The life-boat escorted the fishing vessel, which had a crew of nine, into harbour, arriving at 10.30. Re- wards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 8s..