Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 21st of February, 1957, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen near the shore in Ayr Bay. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a moderate sea.

There was a light north-easterly breeze, and it was low water. The life-boat made for the position and found the motor fishing boat Moray Lass, of Inverness, with a crew of six aground on Blackburn Rocks, one mile south of Ayr harbour. The coxswain took the life-boat close alongside, and when the tide began to flood the fishing boat was towed off the rocks. The Moray Lass then proceeded to Ayr under her own power, and the life-boat returned to her moorings, arriving at 1.45.— Rewards to the crew, £12 5s..