Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties three miles south-east of Brodick pier. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out at 3.12, two hours after high water, in a moderate north-westerly wind and a rough sea.

She found a catamaran, which had a crew of two, a quarter of a mile south of Holy Isle with a broken mast. She towed her to Whiting Bay and reached her station at 7.40. Rewards to the crew, £11 4s..