Mallaig, Inverness-shire. —- At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1956, immediately after the life- boat had returned from a previous service, a message was received from the Southend (Argyll) coastguard that a small boat was drifting and firing red flares between Ardnamurchan Point and the Isle of Muck. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put out at 5.10. The sea was calm, and there were light south-easterly airs and an ebbing tide.

The life-boat came up with the motor yacht Ranger, with a crew of five, some five miles north-west of Ardnamurchan Point. The yacht had engine trouble and the life-boat towed her to Tober- mory, arriving back at her station at 3.30 on the morning of the 17th of July.—Property Salvage Case..