Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 7th of June. 1956, the Sonthend coastguard reported that a steam lighter had fired three orange flares off Uguadale Point in Kil- brannan Sound. The life-boat City of Glasgow II put out at 1.21 in a calm sea with a light north-easterly breeze blowing and an ebbing tide. As she approached the lighter, which was the Cuban, of Glasgow, with a crew of three, she saw that another vessel was going alongside. The Cuban's engine had broken down and the other vessel, which was the steam lighter Scalight, began to tow her to Campbeltown.

Because of the heavy southerly swell the life-boat escorted both vessels to Campbeltown, arriving back at her station at 2,45.—Rewards to the crew, £7; reward to the helper on shore, 13s..