TOWED TO ABERDEEN At 10.45 p.m. on 4th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen one mile south-east by east of Girdleness. There was a smooth sea with light airs from the west and it was just before high water. At 11.10 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan, on temporary duty at the station, put out. Twenty minutes later she found the open motor boat Seahavik, whose engine had failed. There were three men aboard. Her crew were taken aboard the life-boat, and the Seahawk was towed to Aberdeen. The life-boat returned to her station at 12.40 a.m..