Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 1960, a telephone message was received from the owners of the coaster Ashdene that she needed help some sixteen miles south-south-east of Wick. There was a moderate north-north-easterly wind and a moderate sea. It was low water.

There were no other vessels near the Ashdene, and at 4.45 the life-boat City of Edinburgh put out. When she reached the Ashdene she found her with her engines broken down. The life- boat took her in tow to Wick and re- turned to her station at three o'clock.

Rewards to the crew, £19; rewards to the helpers on shore, 12s..