Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boats had left Tobermory to search for a converted ship's boat, which had broken down off Mingary, but that they had not found her. At 2.10 the life-boat E.M.M.

Gordon Cubbin put out in a moderate swell. There was a moderate south- westerly wind and it was high water.

The life-boat found the converted ship's boat Curlew, which had a crew of six, ashore in Mingary Bay and stood by her until she refloated. As the Curlew's engine had broken down, the life-boat took her in tow to Tobermory and reached her station at 12.25. Rewards to the crew, £17 7s..