Montrose, Angus. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that the ketch Zoraida was drifting three miles north of Montrose.

The life-boat The Good Hope was launched at 3.10 at high water in a gentle south-westerly breeze and a rough sea. The coxswain found the casualty, and the crew fired a line to her, but the two men on board the ketch could not haul in the heavy line, and the ketch grounded. She was in a dangerous position, and the life-boat veered down on her and succeeded in towing her clear at 5.2. The life-boat reached her station at 5.45..