TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE TROUBLE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 5.17 on the afternoon of the 23rd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from the Peterhead look-out two and a half miles east-by-north from Peterhead.

The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow made for the position at 5.36 in a gentle westerly breeze and a slight sea.

It was low water. The life-boat found that the fishing boat Carnation of Peterhead had engine trouble and was drifting towards Peterhead. The fishing boat with three men on board was taken in tow to Peterhead by the life-boat, which reached her station at 7.19..