Anstruther, Fife - At 3.26 a.m. on 28th October, 1966, red flares were reported eight miles south east of Fifeness. At 3.30 the life-boat The Doctors was launched. It was three hoursafter high water. At 9 o'clock the life-boat reached the casualty, the motor fishing vessel Pern. The motor fishing vessel Grimond and the motor vessel Spray were standing by. The Pern had a fouled propeller. The life-boat towed her back to Anstruther and returned to her station at 3.35 p.m..