DANGEROUS POSITION Arbroath, Angus. At 8.50 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a message had been received from a Carnoustie resident that a fishing boat had fired two red flares from a point off Dowrie. At 9.6 the life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched in a gentle east-north-easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was three hours before low water. The life-boat found the fishing boat Falcon with a rope fouling her propeller.

She was in danger of drifting on to rocks with a strong inshore wind and the life-boat took the Falcon in tow, with her crew of two. She reached her station at 10.30..