Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.42 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the 30-feet motor launch Serpae had left Portencross for Saltcoats at ten o'clock the night before, but had not arrived. There were two men aboard the launch, and at 3.5 the life- boat James and Barbara Ait ken left her moorings in a moderate sea. There was a moderate north-easterly wind and an ebb tide. The life-boat found the launch off West Kilbride with engine trouble. The two men were transferred to the life-boat, which then took the Serpae in tow to Saltcoats. The life- boat reached her station at 6.55.

Rewards to the crew, £9 16s..