LOBSTER BOAT AIDED Stromness, Orkneys. At 4.20 a.m.

on 24th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the lobster boat Robin of Kirkwall on passage to Stromness was overdue. At 4.45 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Paterson launched in a moderate west-south-westerly breeze and smooth sea. It was low water. At 5.20 the lobster boat was seen one mile off St.

John's Head. The Robin with a crew of two on board was escorted into harbour and the life-boat returned to her station at 6.45..