TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE FAILURE Arbroath, Angus. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 5th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Eight Bells of Arbroath had engine faiJure off Auchmithie. There was a gentle westsouth- westerly breeze with a choppy sea.

At 4.53 the life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched on the ebbing tide. She found the Eight Bells about a mile off Auchmithie, took her in tow and brought her into Arbroath harbour. She then returned to her station, which she reached at six o'clock..