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TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Aberdeen. At 11.10 on the night of the 4th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three to four miles east-south-east of Gregness. The life-boat W and S, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.25 in a strong north-north-westerly wind and a moderate sea. It was an hour and a half after low water. The life-boat found the fishing boat Mag of Peterhead with a crew of three. She had fouled her propeller, and the life-boat took her in tow to Aberdeen, reaching her station at two o'clock in the morning..