CREW OF SWEDISH VESSEL LANDED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.20 on the morning of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was ashore on Fladdachuain Island three miles west of Trodday Island. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at four o'clock in a moderately south-westerly wind and a moderate sea. The tide was half ebb.

The life-boat reached the position and found the motor vessel Ofelia of Gothenburg with a heavy list. Her master had remained on board, but the crew of fourteen had landed safely on the island. The master and ten of the crew were taken on board the life-boat, which landed them at Stornoway at 1.55. The remaining four members of the crew decided to stay on the island to keep watch on the Ofelia and were left with a canvas cover for protection and sufficient food supplies. At three o'clock the master received instructions from Sweden that the four men left on the island should be taken off as soon as possible. The Mallaig life-boat was already on her way to the island when a message was received that H.M.S. Malcolm had taken the four men off and was making for Stornoway. The owner of the Ofelia sent a letter of appreciation to the Institution..