Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 12.10 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a vessel off Broadsea was seen firing rockets and appeared to be on fire. The life-boat The Duchess of Kent was launched at 12.20 in a gentle north-westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was two and a half hours after low water. She reached the f.v. Harvester II and found that her electrical equipment had been on fire and her engine had stopped. The life-boat took the fishing vessel in tow and returned to Fraserburgh.

She arrived back on station at 1.20..