ROLLING HEAVILY Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.40 a.m.

on I4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Girl Betty of Peterhead was ashore on Proudfoot at the north entrance of Wick Bay. There was a moderate southwesterly breeze with a choppy sea, and the tide was ebbing. The life-boat City of Edinburgh launched at 2.55 and found the vessel at 3.10, fast aground and rolling heavily. The coxswain took the life-boat round the rocks to the seaward of the fishing boat and rescued her crew of seven. The life-boat left the vessel at 3.45 and arrived back at her station at 4 a.m..