Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 2.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Gullfoss of Reykjavik which would be off Scrabster at 4 o'clock. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31} was launched at 3 o'clock in light south westerly airs and a slight sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat went alongside the motor vessel and embarked the sick man. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.30..