Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1959, the assistant honorary secretary was informed that a message had been received from the fishing vessel Coral Isle of North Shields that one of her fishermen was seriously ill, and that as the tide was ebbing he could not be landed. At 5.40 the life- boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched, with a doctor on board, in a slight swell. There was a north-easterly wind and an ebb tide. The life-boat met the Coral Isle off the harbour.

The doctor went aboard but he found that the fisherman had died. The life- boat returned to her station at 6.40.

Rewards to the crew, £9 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £8 16s..