Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.0 in the evening, on the 25th of June, 1951, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy was reported in difficulties and drifting two miles south-west of Whiting Bay. At 6.17 the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched with the second coxswain in charge. The sea was rough, with a fresh north-westerly breeze blowing. She found the dinghy with a man and woman in her ten miles south-south-east of Kildonan, and took the woman on board. Her companion stayed in the dinghy to steer it. The dinghy's mainsail had broken and her outboard motor could not be fitted owing to the heavy sea, so the life-boat took her in tow. But before long she became waterlogged, and as the life-boat took the man off the dinghy's mast broke and she sank.

The life-boat landed the rescued couple in the harbour, and reached her station again at 1.30 the next morning. The dinghy was recovered later from the beach north of the harbour.—Re- wards, £10 16s..