These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and returned later to stand by a salvage attempt.

In deteriorating weather Boy Andrew was pulled free by a large trawler and immediately began to sink. The quick thinking of the coxswain, Hewitt Clark, enabled the lifeboat to take off the remaining crew.

(Photographs courtesy Ian Leask).