FLASHING LIGHT Longhope, Orkney. At 3.30 a.m. on I5th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a quick flashing light that appeared to be travelling westwards had been observed half a mile off Cantick Head lighthouse.

The life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 4 o'clock in a light southerly breeze and a slight sea. It was low water. The lifeboat reached the flashing light, which was mounted on an orange coloured plastic buoy. The life-boat took the buoy, which had no marking on it, in tow and arrived at her station at 5.40. The buoy had been used by a Naval recovery vessel to mark the position of a crashed helicopter, but it had broken adrift during a heavy gale..