HELP FOR LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Aberdeen. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Norman Nasmyth had broken down off Portlethen while on passage from Montrose to Newburgh.

At 11.32 the life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a gentle northerly breeze and a slight sea. It was one hour after high water. The life-boat towed the Norman Nasmyth to Newburgh and reached her station at 6.2..