FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO BEACH Aith, Shetlands. At 6.10 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed by a man living in Sandness that a motor fishing vessel was in difficulties at the north end of Papa Stour as her engines had broken down. At 6.40 the life-boat The John and Frances Macfarlane left her moorings in a moderate north-easterly wind and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat reached the position at 8.5 and found the motor fishing vessel The Willing Boys of Lerwick. Her crew of four were working hard to keep a leak, which had developed, under control and were very exhausted, and the coxswain decided to take the vessel in tow to the nearest sheltered beach. At 9.50 the fishing vessel was beached at Gonfirth, and the crew were able to land safely. The lifeboat then returned to her moorings, arriving at 11.5..