TOWLINE PASSED TO DANISH MOTOR VESSEL Wick, Caithness-shire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish motor vessel Jens Emil had broken down four miles east of Wick. The life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a strong south-westerly wind and a rough sea.

It was two hours before high water.

The life-boat came up with the Jens Emil and stood by her until the motor trawler Gilmar arrived. She helped to pass a towline to the Jens Emil, and when the two vessels were under way the life-boat returned to her station, which she reached at 2.20..