Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1959. the honorary secretary was in- formed that a launch, which had left Knoydart at eleven o'clock for Mallaig, was an hour and a half overdue. The life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin left hermoorings at 1.20, when the tide was half ebb, in a very rough sea with a strong west-south-westerly gale blowing.

She found the missing launch, which had ten people on board, with her engine broken down in tow of the motor fishing vessel Beulah. The life- boat escorted the two boats to Mallaig, arriving at three o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £8 15s..