TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew of ten had taken to life-rafts. Their position was fortyfour miles east-south-east of Copinsay light. At 3.32 the Stronsay life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman left her moorings in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea. It was one hour after high water.

The life-boat reached the area of search at 8.30 in the evening and together with other vessels carried out an intensive search throughout the night in poor visibility and steep seas. As the search was expected to continue for some time, arrangements were made for the Longhope life-boat T.G.B. to relieve the Stronsay boat. She was launched at 11.55 and reached the area of search at 8.30 the next morning. The Stronsay life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at nine o'clock in the evening.

Meanwhile one of the vessels searching, the Danish vessel Nella Dan, reported at ten o'clock that she had picked up the ten survivors about eighty miles east of Stronsay, and the Longhope life-boat was asked to take the survivors on board. The Nella Dan was sighted by the coxswain at 11.20 and he made a run up alongside her starboard quarter to examine the conditions. He then took a turn out to starboard to make his approach and fenders were put in place on the port side. The rise and fall of the seas alongside the vessel was ten feet, and the coxswain chose his position to embark the survivors just forward of the Nella Dan's bridge, a rope ladder being lowered and taken inside the lifeboat's rail. Each survivor was fitted with a life-jacket and harness to which a lifeline was attached. Five men had been transferred when the life-boat's stern mooring rope parted, and the life-boat was held in position while another rope was made fast. The five remaining survivors were then taken on board, and they were landed at Wick at 12.50 early on the 6th August. When the life-boat's crew had had a meal and the life-boat had been refuelled she returned to her station, arriving at 5.30. A letter of appreciation was received from the Provost of Peterhead..