ESCORTED TO SAFETY At 8.15 a.m. on loth November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Eileen had not returned to the harbour since leaving at two o'clock the previous afternoon. In view of the worsening weather conditions and the fishing vessel's previous engine trouble thelife-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield //was launched at 8.50 in a near east-south-easterly gale and a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat located the vessel three miles south of the harbour and stood by her until high water. The fishing vessel was then escorted to the harbour.

The life-boat returned to her station at 10.30..