FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which was blowing when a tow was passed to the yacht Lysistrata in trouble seven miles north east of Fraserburgh. The lifeboat launched at 1130 and, running before the southerly swell, arrived alongside the yacht 18 minutes later.

With the tow secured Coxswain Albert Sutherland turned the yacht's head to wind and once her skipper had assured him that all was well, he began the tow at three knots back towards Fraserburgh. By 1350 the yacht and her two man crew were safely inside the harbour and the lifeboat returned to the slipway for rehousing..