LOBSTER YAWL ESCORTED IN Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 7th December, 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the bowman of the lifeboat that the local lobster yawl Lion was having difficulty in reaching port because of the confused seas building up with the first hour of the flood tide in the Eddy of Brims. The rapidly deteriorating weather conditions made it most unlikely that a small boat could shelter safely without help, and at 3.27 the lifeboat T.G.B. was launched. There was a fresh to strong south-easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was flooding.

The life-boat reached the Lion, which had a crew of two, at 3.55 and escorted her safely into Aith Hope. The life-boat reached her station at 4.20..