Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 6.30 on the evening of the 9th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was ashore on Aber- tay sandbank on the south side of the entrance to the Tay. As no other boat was available, the life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 7.3, with a boarding boat in tow, to warn the yacht of the dangerous quicksands in the area. There was a light south- south-easterly breeze and a calm sea.

It was two hours before low water.

The life-boat took off the occupant of the yacht Duchess and landed him at Broughty Ferry, arriving back at her station at 8.45. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 10s..