Arbroath, Angus. At 11.3 on the night of the 6th September, 1961, a message was received from the Mont- rose life-boat station asking for the help of the Arbroath life-boat in the search that was being made for the pleasure boat Lena of Montrose, which was missing with two men and two young girls on board. There was a light north-westerly breeze with a slight sea. The tide was flooding. At 11.10 the life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched. She made towards Red Head and after a search, in which she was helped by the motor vessel Freswick, she found the Lena. The Freswick had located the Lena by means of her radar and was able to guide the life-boat to within fifty yards of her. The two girls and one man were taken on board the life-boat, and the Lena, with the second man on board, was towed to Arbroath.

The life-boat returned to her station at 2.10..