It was reported on the evening of the 13th September that a party of nine people were stranded on Lady Isle, about three miles from Troon, in the Firth of Clyde. They had left Prestwick at 3 P.M. in a motor boat and had landed on the island safely, but a strong N.N.W. breeze had sprung up, bringing a heavy sea, and when the party prepared to return to the main- land the boat hit the rocks and sprang a leak. The boatman was alone in the boat. He tried to get her ashore, but failed, and in his endeavours to moor her his ankle was badly smashed. He then decided to try and reach the main- land for help, but the engine broke down. Luckily the boat drifted to- wards the Prestwick shore, where she was seen and picked up, and the boat- man gave the alarm. The motor life- boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at 9.15 P.M., with her boarding boat in tow. The party was taken into the life-boat and landed safely at Troon, and the life-boat re- turned to her station at 11 P.M. Mr.

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