AGROUND IN FOG Dunbar, East Lothian. At 2.54 p.m. on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the m.f.v. Virgin IV had run aground in fog on Long Craig rock, half a mile west of the harbour.

The life-boat Margaret left her moorings at 3 o'clock in a light south-easterly breeze and calm sea, in dense fog. It was one and a half hours after high water.

The life-boat went alongside the Virgin IV, but the crew refused to leave their ship. Later a fishing boat arrived and took them aboard. The life-boat escorted the fishing boat to Dunbar, reaching her moorings at 4.20 p.m. Later that evening she went out again, at 10.18, as the crew of the Virgin IV had reboarded their vessel anticipating refloating on the rising tide. The life-boat reached the grounded vessel at n o'clock and a tow line was put aboard. The life-boat towed the Virgin IV off and took her to Dunbar, and was back at her moorings at eight minutes past midnight..