Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat needed help ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- boat was not launched immediately as all the local boats were at sea, and it was thought probable that the boat in difficulty would be seen by one of them.

At 1.30, when most of the boats had returned to harbour, there was further news of the boat needing help. The life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a gentle-to-moderate southerly breeze with a slight sea and an ebbing tide.

She found the fishing boat Marie Bhan with her propeller fouled in her seine net and towed her back to Wick. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.45.

Rewards to the crew, £4 4s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3..