DECK CARGO OF TIMBER SHIFTED ON DANISH SHIP Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.7 a.m. on 31 st August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a Danish vessel had developed a very heavy list and was in danger of sinking twelve miles east of Fetlar. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth left her moorings at 10.23 in a strong north-north-easterly wind and a rough sea. It was an hour and a half after low water.

An aircraft also took off to search and reported at 11.50 that it had sighted the Danish ship eleven and a half miles from Baltasound light. The life-boat expected to reach the position at 2 p.m. At 1.20 a message was received that a Russian tug was accompanying the cargo vessel, Brigitte Frellsen, which she later took in tow. The life-boat reached the position and found three trawlers and the Norwegian life-boat Haakon VII in attendance.

The vessel's deck cargo of timber had shifted and she was listing badly. At 7.45 the Haakon VII took off nine of the crew and the captain's wife and proceeded to Lerwick, leaving the captain and mate still on board. The Lerwick life-boat escorted the listing ship and tug to Lerwick harbour, which was reached at 4.32 a.m. on the ist September..