ANCHOR DRAGGING Aith, Shetlands. At 12.30 p.m. on ipth February, 1965, the honorary secretary received information from North Muckle Roe that a motor fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties in a dangerous position west of Lothian Ness, north west of Muckle Roe. The life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane proceeded to the casualty at 12.50 and reached her about an hour later. There was a strong northerly breeze and a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing. The propeller of the casualty the motor fishing vessel Dorothy George of Lerwick was foul and although she had an anchor out she was dragging towards the rocks with the inshore wind.

A line was passed to the trawler and the life-boat towed her into Roesound where she could be safely beached and with the receding tide the obstruction around the propeller could be cleared. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.10 p.m..