Kirkcudbright. At 4.20 on the after- noon of the 14th of December, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a local fisherman was in difficulties in a fishing coble off Borness Head. At five o'clock the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched in a calm sea, with a moderate north-easterly wind blowing and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the coble, which had engine trouble, and took her in tow to harbour.

The life-boat reached her station at 7.30. Rewards to the crew, £10 10s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 7s..