STOKEHOLD ON FIRE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.59 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had received a mayday call from the British trawler hernia stating that her stokehold was on fire. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.25 in an easterly gale force wind and a very rough sea. It was two hours after low water. The life-boat was guided by flares dropped by a Shackleton aircraft of Coastal Command and located the hernia fifteen miles north-east of Peterhead. At the request of the skipper nine of the trawler's crew of twenty were taken off.

After standing by while another trawler took the hernia in tow the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at ii p.m..