FISHING VESSEL'S CREW TAKEN OFF ROCKS Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.52 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Serene had sent a radio message that another motor fishing vessel, Eclipse, was ashore at the north end of Green Holm and that her crew were on the holm. The Serene was unable to take the men off because of the shallow water, and at 4.7 the life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth left her moorings, taking her boarding boat with her.

There was a light north-westerly breeze and a slight sea. It was one hour after low water. When the position was reached the crew of three of the Eclipse were taken on board the life-boat, and as the fishing vessel was fast to the rocks full of water, the life-boat returned to her station, which she reached at 5.45..