Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 9.20 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore on the north side of May Island. At 9.35 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched in a slight swell. There was a strong north-westerly wind and it was two hours before low water. The crew of thirteen of the trawler Thomas L. Devlin of Granton had taken to two rubber dinghies, which had drifted clear of the island. They were taken on board the life-boat, which returned to her station, with the dinghies in tow, arriving at 11.30. Rewards to the crew, £10 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £9 19s..