Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of January,1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore on Frisland Rocks. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out at 7.45. There was a south-easterly gale with a rough sea, and it was one hour after high-water. The life-boat reached the trawler, which was aground on a lee shore, and found that at low water her crew were able to get ashore over her bows. A second trawler reached the scene, and her skipper asked the cox- swain to assist in passing a line to the casualty, but this proved impossible.

The life-boat left the casualty at 3.30 and returned to her station at 8.30..