Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 8.30 p.m. on 29th January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the M.F.V. Moira Herd was aground at Red Beacon, Holm Head. The lifeboat James and Margaret Boyd proceeded to the casualty at 9.10 in a gentle easterly breeze and slight sea. It was three hours after high water. At 9.30 the life-boat arrived at the stranded vessel which was progressively listing to starboard with the falling tide. The crew of the Moira Herd were taken aboard the life-boat for safety and the life-boat then stood by to await the flood tide in the small hours of the morning. The Moira Herd began to come upright at half flood about 2 a.m. and at their own request the crew were put back on board. The life-boat towed the stranded vessel off the rock at 3.20 and escorted her back into Stornoway Harbour where they arrived at 3.50. The life-boat returned to her moorings at 4.30 a.m..