Arbroath’s Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape launched at 9.45pm on 26 November 2010, to go to the aid of a fishing boat in difficulty in 6m seas and force 8 winds. If the vessel had maintained her course, she would have gone aground on Gaa Sands. But Coxswain Tommy Yule used his exceptional local knowledge to advise and guide the fishing boat’s skipper to safer waters. Passage back to the station was very slow in heavy breaking seas, big swell and pitch blackness but the crew did well to bring Inchcape home without incident.