CREW RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT AGROUND Stromness, Orkneys. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 16th February, 1963, the ex-coxswain, after returning from lobster fishing, telephoned the present coxswain to report that the local fishing boat Desire, with two men on board, was aground on Clett Skerry off Graemsay.

The coxswain informed the honorary secretary, and at 5.35 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson was launched in a light south-easterly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing. The coxswain took a flatbottomed boat with him. The life-boat reached the fishing boat at 5.50 and after rescuing the crew of two of the Desire returned to her station at 6.30. The Desire was refloated at high water with the help of a local fishing boat..