MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR ENTRANCE Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.21 on the night of the 25th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf of Lossiemouth was ashore near the Point of Ness and that the Stromness life-saving apparatus team were standing by. The life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was launched at 11.40 in a moderate south-southeasterly breeze and a moderate sea.

The tide was ebbing. Shortly after launching the life-boat grounded on the bank inside the Black buoy, but she refloated at 7.45 and made for the position given. By this time the Wave Sheaf had also refloated, and with the help of the motor vessel Incentive the life-boat towed her to the harbour entrance. The life-boat reached her station at 8.15. She was not damaged..