Lerwick, Shetlands. At 12.14 P-mon i3th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard an open motor boat situated at Ness of Sound was trying to attract attention. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth was launched at 12.29 in a very strong northerly gale and a very rough sea. It was three and a half hours after high water. The motor boat Silver Spray was reached at 12.53 when a member of the life-boat crew was placed on board to help the owner. She was then towed by the life-boat at reduced speed back to harbour which was reached at 1.35.