Montrose, Angus. At 3.9 on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor launch had broken down three quarters of a mile off Usan. At 3.25 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched in a moderate swell, with a moderate easterly wind blowing and a flood tide. She found the former ship's boat Helen with two men and a dog aboard. The boat was leaking and her crew were baling. The two men and the dog were taken on board the life-boat. Their boat was taken in tow but sank before the life- boat reached her station at 4.35.

Rewards to the crew, £7 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £3 5s..