Aberdeen - At 2.9 a.m. on i6th December, 1966, a red flare was sighted north of the river Ythan, and later it was confirmed that the motor fishing vessel Semnos II was aground north of the river estuary. The coastguard L.S.A. company were assembling at that point. The lifeboat Ramsay-Dyce slipped her moorings at 2.45 and proceeded in a light westerly wind and a rough sea. It was one and a hah0 hours before high water. She reached the fishing vessel at 4.30 but every effort to get alongside was thwarted by the shallow water and heavy breaking seas.

The life-boat stood by the vessel while the coastguard connected a breeches buoy and took off all six members of the crew.

When they were all safely ashore, the lifeboat was recalled, arriving at her station at 7.10..