Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.45 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1960, the assistant honorary secretary told the honorary secretary that he had heard the motor fishing vessel Gleaner of Fraserburgh wirelessing for help as she was ashore at the south entrance to Lerwick harbour. At 10.10 the life- boat Claude Cecil Stan/forth put out at low water in a strong south-south- easterly gale and a very rough sea.

Visibility was poor. The life-boat found the Gleaner drifting towards the Ness of Sound, and using his search- light, the coxswain closed her port side.

Two of the fishing vessel's crew jumped aboard the life-boat and told the cox- swain that the fishing vessel's skipper was adrift in an inflatable dinghy.The life-boat found the dinghy, which was empty, as the motor fishing vessel Fragrant had rescued the skipper. The life-boat returned to her station at 11.5.

Rewards to the crew, £7..