THIRTEEN MEN TAKEN OFF BELGIAN TRAWLER Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.10 on the morning of the 22nd December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler was ashore on rocks between Auskerry and Stronsay. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman left her moorings at 10.28 in a moderate southerly breeze and a moderate sea. The life-boat was making for the position when the coastguard reported that the trawler was ashore on the Corn Holm, Copinsay. She reached this position at 1.10, but the coxswain found that there was too little water to reach the vessel. He was ferried ashore in a dinghy from the lighthouse and conferred with the skipper of the trawler, which was the Prince de Lieqe of Ostend. As the vessel was hard and fast on the rocks, the crew of thirteen were taken on board the life-boat after they had collected some of their possessions, and the life-boat left for Kirkwall, arriving at 3.50. She then landed the crew of the trawler. The life-boat crew had a meal in Kirkwall, and the life-boat reached her station at 9.45..