Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig. There was a strong southerly gale with a rough sea, and the tide was ebbing. At 2.13 the life- boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out.

On reaching the position given she found that the yacht had been driven on to a small rocky isle. The life-boat put a rope on board the yacht and on the flood tide towed her clear of the rocks. One of the life-boat crew then went on board the yacht, and the life-boat towed her and her crew to Mallaig..