Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red rockets had been sighted to the south-east in the direction of Papa Westray. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman put out at 11.40 in a gentle westerly breeze with a slight sea.

It was two hours before low water. The life-boat found the fishing boat Press On K.263 with a crew of two drifting close in on the north shore of Eday.

She towed her to a safe berth in Calf Sound and returned to her station at 2.20 in the morning. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s.; rewards to the helpers on shore, 12s..