Dunbar, East Lothian. At two o'clock on the morning of the 9th of Nov- ember, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Edinburgh had reported the sailing boat Mudlark, with three young men on board, missing in the Firth of Forth. At 2.15 the life-boat Margaret put out in a rough sea. A south- westerly gale was blowing and the tide was half flood. A helicopter joined in the search and sighted a boat off Port Seton. The life-boat made for the position indicated and found the Mud- lark drifting with her rudder damaged.

The three men were taken on board the life-boat, which towed the Mudlark to Port Seton, where her crew were landed.

The life-boat then returned to her station, arriving at four o'clock. The Anstruther life-boat was also launched to help in the search. Rewards to the crew, £32 5s..