BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.4 a.m. on iyth January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had fired a warning rocket and that a fishing vessel which had gone near the Ness of Sound had stopped and burnt a distress flare. There was a moderate southerly breeze with a slight sea. It was one hour after high water. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth set out at 1.30 and found the trawler Rangor of Aberdeen aground on the rocks. The coxwain anchored and veered down on the trawler, and in the meantime the local life-saving apparatus team had rigged up a breeches buoy. The coxswain illuminated the vessel with his searchlight to help in getting the men off the trawler quickly. At 2.58 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that all the crew of the trawler were ashore. The life-boat was recalled and returned to her station at 3.30..