ON THE SANDS Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 11.16 a.m. on yth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a 6o-foot motor fishing vessel ashore on sands north of Rattray Head. At 11.33 ^ life-boat Thomas McCunn on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a light southsouth- easterly breeze, a slight sea, and the tide was flooding. The life-boat found the motor fishing vessel Prosperity of Lowestoft high and dry. Her crew had walked ashore. The life-boat returned to her station at 1.30. The coastguard then reported that it was hoped to refloat the Prosperity between three and four o'clock.

The life-boat, therefore, launched again at 2.30, and, on reaching the position, towed the motor fishing vessel clear of the beach and escorted her to harbour, arriving at 5.15..