Girvan, Ayrshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1958, the motor mechanic, who was on board the life-boat at her moorings, intercepted a radio-telephone message passed between the Ailsa Craig lighthouse keeper and Portpatrick coastguard.

From this he learnt that the local motor vessel Ailsa, which had carried stores to the lighthouse, had developed engine trouble on her way back to Girvan and had broken down a mile and a half north-north-east of Ailsa Craig. The life-boat Robert Lindsay put out at 12.45, with the second coxswain in command, in a moderate sea. There was a moderate east-north-easterly gale and a flood tide. The fishing boat Margaret Stephen had meanwhile heard of the incident and had made for the position.

The life-boat reached the Ailsa three- quarters of a mile south of Ailsa Craig and found her in tow of the Margaret Stephen. She escorted both vessels to harbour, arriving at 3.30. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; reward to the helper on shore, 12s..