Girvan, Ayrshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that local fishing boats were returning to the har- bour in a rough sea and a strong north- north-west wind, and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. At 10.15 the life-boat Frank and William Gates was launched in an ebbing tide.

She escorted in twelve boats and re- turned to her station, arriving at 12.15.

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