TRAWLER ASHORE Stronsay, Orkneys. At 8.30 a.m. on I2th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Loch Kildonan was ashore on sand in Holland Bay. There was a fresh south-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea. It was one hour before low water. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman was launched at 11.40 a.m. to assist the trawler to refloat on the rising tide. When she came up with the casualty the life-boat found that the crew with the exception of the skipper and engineer had been taken ashore by the life saving apparatus team in the trawler's life-raft. A line was made fast and at 4.36 p.m. the trawler was pulled off the sands. The life-boat started towing her towards Kirkwall but at 6.40 the casualty's rudder, which was jammed, was freed and she was able to proceed under her own power, with three life-boatmen on board to help navigate ner.The Loch Kildonanz scorted by the life-boat arrived in Kirkwall at 8.40 and after the crew had had a meal the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at forty minutes past midnight on the I3th March..