ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.

Within seven minutes the lifeboat The Duke of Montrose was launched in a light easterly breeze and a calm sea. It was high water. The lifeboat found the fishing vessel Earn of Fraserburgh with her engine broken down. The Earn had been drifting for twenty-two hours. Another fishing vessel, Margaret Car gill, reached the position shortly before the life-boat, and she took the Earn in tow, the life-boat escorting them to Arbroath. The lifeboat reached her station at 9.45. The inspector of H.M. Coastguard, East Scotland Division, wrote a letter complimenting the life-boat crew on their prompt response..