Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a motor boat was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie Point. At six o'clock the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a rough sea, with a fresh north-westerly wind blowing and a flood tide. The life-boat made for the position, but a radio-telephone message was received stating that a motor boat from Lamlash had the casualty in tow and was making for Brodick. During the return pas- sage to her station the life-boat inter- cepted a message from the Clyde passen- ger steamer Duchess of Hamilton that she had taken two men off a small yacht five miles north of Holy Island. The coastguard asked the coxswain to keep a look-out for the abandoned yacht, which was named Mignonne. The life-boat found her and took her in tow to Troon harbour, reaching her own moorings at 11.15. Rewards to the crew, £10 16s.