Dunbar, East Lothian. At 11.36 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1960.

the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Devotion of Dunbar had fouled her propeller off the South Carr beacon and needed help. At 11.40, two and a half hours before high water, the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, put out in a fresh southerly wind and a slight swell. She took the fishing vessel in tow to Dunbar, arriving at 12.45. Rewards to the crew, £7..