Life-boat 70-002 at Longhope, Orkney - At 2.18 p.m. on 22nd March, 1969, while life-boat 70-002 was at Longhope and her crew were preparing to go ashore to attend the funeral of the crew of the Longhope life-boat, the coastguard reported to the staff coxswain that the motorfishing vessel Girl Mina, with four men on board, had broken down in the Pentland Firth. The life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie slipped her moorings at 2.23 in a strong south south easterly breeze with a moderate sea. It was high water. The life-boat came up with the Girl Mina at 4.6 and took her in tow to Stromness.

She returned to Longhope at 9.0 o'clock..