BY RADIO TELEPHONE Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 9 p.m.

on 29th April, 1964, a local man reported that he had heard a message on his radio telephone that the motor fishing vessel Golden Rule, of Stromness, needed help.

At 9.45 the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched. There was a fresh westerly wind, the sea was rough, and the tide was half flood. The life-boat found the Golden Rule, which had a crew of three, six miles north-west of Brims Ness. Her engine had been giving trouble and two vessels were standing by her.

The life-boat escorted her to Scrabster and returned to her station at 11.45..