Whitehills, Banffshire. At 7.30 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was ashore one mile east of Pennan. The life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No.

10) was launched at 8.15 in a moderate southerly breeze and a moderate sea.

It was low water. The life-boat found nothing in the position given and had begun to search the area to the eastward, when some men on the shore asked for assistance as they had found a body.

The life-boat dropped anchor, and the crew, using a rocket line, rigged a tail block and then hauled the body off to the life-boat on a stretcher. The body was transferred to a salmon coble, which had been engaged by the police, and landed. The life-boat continued to search the area until she was recalled.

She reached her station at 1.45. Re- wards to the crew, £9 Is.; rewards to the helpers on shore, 17s..