Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 7th of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that a motor vessel was ashore on French Point at the entrance to Campbeltown Loch and that her crew had asked for help to tow the vessel off.

At 10.43 the life-boat City of Glasgow, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings in a moderate north- westerly wind and sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat reached the position and found that the casualty was the motor vessel Ben Challenger of Greenock, which had a crew of four.

The first attempt to tow the vessel was unsuccessful, but she refloated at the second attempt and was escorted to Campbeltown, which was reached at 12.7. Property salvage case..