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Maria W.

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 3.35 a.m. on the 22nd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on Whinnyfold Rocks. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 4 o'clock in light easterly airs and a rough sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat moved in thick fog to a position three or four miles south of Buchan-ness and found the Dutch motor vessel Maria W of Rotterdam loaded with fertilizers. Her decks were awash, and the life-boat rescued her crew of five and returned to her station arriving at 6.30 a.m..