Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 8.4 on the evening of the 18th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff near Portpatrick. At 8.14 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out in a slight sea,with a light north-by-easterly breeze blowing and a flood tide. She took the boarding boat in tow. The life-boat found the man, who was seriously injured. He was taken on board and brought to Portpatrick, where he was conveyed to hospital by ambulance.

Rewards to the crew, £7..