Islay, Hebrides. At 10.20 on the night of the 16th of July, 1959, the lighthouse keeper at Rhuvaal informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had fired distress flares a mile and a half north-north-east of Rhuvaal.

At 10.35 the life-boat Charlotte Eliza- beth left her moorings in a slight sea.

There was a light south-westerly breeze and a flood tide. The life-boat found the cabin cruiser Brig O'Doone of Bonahaven with two people on board.

Her engine had broken down, and as she had neither sails nor oars she was drifting towards the northern end of Jura. The Brig O'Doone was taken in tow to Bonahaven, and the life-boat reached her station at one o'clock.

Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 8s..