FRENCH TRAWLER REFLOATED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.50 on the morning of the 14th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler was ashore six miles south of Tarbert harbour.

The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 4.30 in a moderate westerly wind and a rough sea. The tide was half ebb.

The coastguard later reported that the trawler Massabielle of Lorient, with a crew of fifteen, was aground on Stockinish Island on the east coast of Harris. The life-boat reached the stranded vessel at 8.30, and after running out a kedge anchor and making fast a tow line she succeeded in refloating the Massabielle. Two members of the life-boat's crew were then put on board, and the trawler continued under her own power to Stornoway, where she arrived at two o'clock. The life-boat reached her station at 2.40..