Arbroath, Angus - At 1.33 p.m. oa 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Evening Star was lying off the harbour. At 1.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a rough sea and a gale from the south east.

It was 11 hours after low water. She crossed the harbour bar and escorted the Evening Star, skippered by the coxswain of the life-boat, into harbour. The life-boat returned to her station at 2.25..