Stromness, Orkneys. At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the body of a lighthouse keeper, who had been missing for over a week from Sule-Skerry, had been found south of Dunas Rock and thathelp was needed. A moderate westerly gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was flooding. At 1.20 the life- boat Archibald and Alexander M.

Paterson was launched with the district officer of coastguard and the sergeant of police on board. She made for Sule- Skerry, entered a small gully there and moored. Two members of the life- boat's crew landed, accompanied by the coastguard officer, and, with the help of one of the lighthouse keepers, recovered the body of the missing keeper from the cliff south of Dunas Rock. The life-boat took the body to Stromness, arriving at midnight..