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FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Progress of Boddam, was overdue and the weather was deteriorating. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a rough sea. Three minutes later the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched on an ebbing tide. She found the Progress with two men on board at 5.22 and towed her into Peterhead. She then returned to her station, arriving at 6.34..