HIDDEN ROCK HAZARD Wick, Caithness-shire. At i .35 p.m. on 27th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Chance had made a distress call reporting that she was ashore at Hillman Head, three miles south of Wick bay. There was a light north-north-westerly breeze with a smooth sea and it was an hour before flood tide. At 1.42 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched. She found the fishing vessel held fast by a hidden rock.

With the help of a local boat she towed the Chance off the rocks and then escorted her to Wick, reaching her station at 2.35..