"Hm Tug Prosperous Tows 6,00 Ton Merchantman To Safety. 4 January 1943, Greenock, Immediately After She Had Commissioned and Before She Had Time To Undergo Trials, Hm Rescue Tug Prosperous Received Orders To Go To the Aid of a 6,000 Ton Merchant Ship in Distress 800 Miles Out in the Atlantic. in the Very Heavy Weather the Prosperous Took the Ship in Tow, and at the End of Seven Days Berthed Her Safely in the Harbour." Lt G E L Brice, RNR, in command of the PROSPEROUS.