THE Broughty Ferry, Angus, life-boat Mono, took part in an exercise on the 8th of December, 1955, in conjunction with helicopters, search aircraft and air-sea rescue launches. The main purpose was to investigate and exer- cise communications between a life- boat and aircraft and a life-boat and A*air-sea rescue launches through the Fifeness coastguard radio telephone station. The opportunity was also taken of picking up airmen from rubber dinghies, and a supposedly disabled man was taken off the life-boat in a Neil Robertson stretcher into a heli- copter..