Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1965, the life-boat Laura Moncur left her moorings in a moderate to strong south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea to relieve the Cromarty lifeboat which had been searching for fourteen hours for survivors from a Shackleton aircraft which had crashed the previous afternoon eight miles north of Kinloss. It was one hour and a half after high water. The Buckie life-boat arrived at the position at 4 o'clock and commenced to search accompanied by the fishery vessel Explorer and the fishery cruiser Viligant. The life-boat picked up various pieces of wreckage and also transferred wreckage which had been found by the Explorer to an air-sea rescue launch.

A brief-case which was also found was handed over to the crew of a helicopter from Kinloss. A helicopter from the R.N.A.S. at Lossiemouth caught fire and the life-boat proceeded to her assistance, but the helicopter landed safely at Burghead where the fire was extinguished. The search for survivors from the Shackleton aircraft continued until 4 p.m., without success, and the life-boat returned to her moorings at 6 o'clock..