Aberdeen - At 11.39 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an outboard dinghy with four people on board which had left Stonehaven at 7.30 was overdue. At 12.20 a.m.

as none of the dinghy's crew had returned home the assistance of the life-boat was requested. The life-boat Southern Africa, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 1.7 a.m. in a light westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was three hours before high water. A search was made of the coast between Aberdeen and Stonehaven and the life-boat found the dinghy, which had engine trouble, at 2.50. The crew were taken aboard the life-boat and the dinghy was taken in tow to Aberdeen. The life-boat returned to her station at 4.30..