Mrs Whyte - who was a 40-year-old mother-of-eight at the time - was on New Aberdour beach in Aberdeenshire when she saw the Dundee steamer William Hope drifting towards rocks after its engine failed.

And flood barriers were put in place in the Aberdeenshire towns of Stonehaven ... reports of a landslip between Inverkeithing and Aberdour, and another north of Kirkcaldy. Earlier this year ...